GitHub actions workflows are not triggered when PRs are merged by this action

[simoneb]

🐛 Bug Report

GitHub actions workflows are not triggered when PRs are merged by this action.

See the long discussion in nearform/fastify-secrets-core#59, which is using this action.

The behavior is by design, to avoid recursive workflow triggers.

Expected behavior

We would like to have workflows triggered by merges done by this action. One of the options is to use a GitHub application to do so. It may be worth researching how to do that.

[simoneb]

We intend to address this issue by implementing a new behavior which allows to use GitHub's built-in automerge feature, implemented in #9 .

[glensc]

Could this be documented, how to configure GitHub's built-in auto-merge feature in this project readme?

I only could find "Allow auto-merge" under https://github.com/org/project/settings "Merge button" and even that does not seem to behave like documented:

• https://docs.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/automatically-merging-a-pull-request

[simoneb]

GitHub's automerge behaves as documented as far as I have seen. Added docs about this here #10

[glensc]

@simoneb thanks!

maybe the browser plugin I use is somehow interfering:

• https://github.com/josephfrazier/octopermalinker