AutoMerge not working

[sahilreddyifit]

I have a pretty generic setup for automerge as follows:

name: automerge
on:
  pull_request:
    types:
      - labeled
      - unlabeled
      - synchronize
      - opened
      - edited
      - ready_for_review
      - reopened
      - unlocked
  pull_request_review:
    types:
      - submitted
  check_suite:
    types:
      - completed
  status: {}
jobs:
  automerge:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: automerge
        uses: "pascalgn/[email protected]"
        env:
          MERGE_LABELS: ""
          MERGE_RETRIES: "32"
          MERGE_RETRY_SLEEP: "60000"
          MERGE_METHOD: "squash"
          GITHUB_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"

But I'm not able to automerge. I saw this comment (#122 (comment)) about the merge button needing to be green to stop mergeable_state from being blocked. But the action itself produces a status check which doesn't allow the button to be green and mergeable_state to be unblocked. Instead of it being green, all of my other status checks pass and the button is grey because the automerge status check is still going. How do I get around this so I can merge when my other status checks have passed?

[sahilreddyifit]

This was actually a branch protection issue

[q-yusufmahtab]

@sahilreddyifit can you describe the underlying issue please? I'm facing the same thing

[q-yusufmahtab]

I just noticed the logs say

2024-07-26T15:55:19.324Z INFO  Skipping PR update, required label missing: automerge

but here's my configuration:

      - name: Automerge PR
        uses: pascalgn/[email protected]
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
          MERGE_LABELS: ready-to-merge
          MERGE_METHOD: squash
          MERGE_DELETE_BRANCH: true

Very strange...