Using gitlab cicd to automatically merge branches

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gitlab has this functionality that you can use pipelines that will execute code whenever you push code to your project. this is done through their .gitlab-ci.yml file format

i am trying to somehow make the pipeline to merge all branches with prefix "ready/" i have written a python program to do it locally, but it wont execute on the gitlab docker remote machine. this is due to the fact that it only lists "* and master" as branches with "git branch -a".

i have tried to checkout to master but that dosent work.

is this even possible on the gitlab pipeline? how would i go forward?

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There are a couple of ways to achieve this depending what credentials you want to use, what you prefer, and what is better suited to your use case.

  1. Use SSH in CI/CD (with SSH keys) to use your standard git commands to pull, do whatever, then push to the repo as part of a pipeline job.
  2. Use the merge requests API which requires a personal access token. The API allows you to create, accept, and merge a merge request.

If you have a lot of branches, then you may want to use the first method.

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