Tide is a Prow component for managing a pool of GitHub PRs that match a given set of criteria. It will automatically retest PRs that meet the criteria ("tide comes in") and automatically merge them when they have up-to-date passing test results ("tide goes out").
- Automatically runs batch tests and merges multiple PRs together whenever possible.
- Ensures that PRs are tested against the most recent base branch commit before they are allowed to merge.
- Maintains a GitHub status context that indicates if each PR is in a pool or what requirements are missing.
- Supports blocking merge to individual branches or whole repos using specifically labelled GitHub issues.
- Exposes Prometheus metrics.
- Supports repos that have 'optional' status contexts that shouldn't be required for merge.
- Serves live data about current pools and a history of actions which can be consumed by Deck to populate the Tide dashboard, the PR dashboard, and the Tide history page.
- Scales efficiently so that a single instance with a single bot token can provide merge automation to dozens of orgs and repos with unique merge criteria. Every distinct 'org/repo:branch' combination defines a disjoint merge pool so that merges only affect other PRs in the same branch.
- Provides configurable merge modes ('merge', 'squash', or 'rebase').
Tide was created in 2017 by @spxtr to replace mungegithub's Submit Queue. It was designed to manage a large number of repositories across organizations without using many API rate limit tokens by identifying mergeable PRs with GitHub search queries fulfilled by GitHub's v4 GraphQL API.