Clarification Needed on PR Creation Behavior by the Plugin

[haziz-du]

Hi, the plugin works fine, but the documentation is unclear about when a PR from the release is created.
Sometimes, even when the job is triggered from the default repository branch, no PR is created by the plugin, and other times it is.

I would like to understand when a PR will be created by the plugin and when it will not. Could you please clarify?

[haziz-du]

@anbraten any input will be helpful, thanks

[anbraten]

The plugin checks for changes (commits with associated PRs) and as soon as there is a single one it will create the release PR. Could you provide some logs. Which forge are you using?

[haziz-du]

@anbraten The forge I'm using is Gitea,

You said "commits with associated PRs",

Let's say I have a repo with branch main as the default branch , and then I created a feature branch out of main, did my changes and create a PR to merge it to main, approved the merge and merge it and the release plugin is triggered because a push event (the merge commit), the plugin will not create a PR in this case as there are no commits associated with PR right ? Happened to me multiple times.

Then how the workflow is supposed to be ?
Thank you so much !

[anbraten]

That's how I would imagine it to work. Create branch feature merge it, plugin checks all commits not part of a commit and creates a PR with the changelog. I've only used the plugin with squashing yet and it might be that "normal" merging doesn't work. I am also not 100% sure if the api of Gitea works correctly when checking if a commit is having a PR linked. What's your log from the plugin when running on main?

[haziz-du]

@anbraten Here is one of job's log

Ps: url is omitted

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