texthtml/gitlab-merge-bot repository overview

⁠Gitlab Merge Bot

⁠Usage

⁠Configure a project for code review

⁠Recommended project configuration

In Settings, General:

• 🗹 Only allow merge requests to be merged if the pipeline succeeds
• 🗹 Only allow merge requests to be merged if all discussions are resolved

In Settings, Repository, protect every branches :

• Branch: * (wildcard)
• Allowed to merge: Masters
• Allowed to push: No one

⁠Bot account configuration

Choose which gitlab account will be associated to the bot and make sure he have the role Master on the repository to be able to install webhooks and merge code into master.

⁠Bot configuration

1. Go to projects administration page
2. Create a new project configuration
3. Enter Gitlab hostname and token
4. Choose the project you want to configure
5. Click "Setup…"
6. On the new project Actions menu, choose "Install Webhook"

⁠Usage

⁠Review

• ask for a code review: r?
• ask for changes: r-
• approve a merge request: r+

⁠Installation

⁠With docker

docker run \
    --rm \
    -v ./db:/data/:rw \
    -e HOOK_URL=https://this-container-gitlab-accessible-url/ \
    texthtml/gitlab-merge-bot

⁠Locally

⁠Requirements

• rustc & cargo nightly⁠
• diesel_cli⁠ (tl;dr: cargo install diesel_cli)

⁠Configuration

echo DATABASE_URL=/path/to/db.sqlite > .env
echo HOOK_URL=https://url.to/merge-bot/ >> .env

⁠Intialization

diesel database setup

⁠Running

cargo run

⁠Development

Once configured and initialized:

ROCKET_ADDRESS=0.0.0.0 nodemon -e rs,toml,env,tera,sql -x cargo -- run