In this article, we analyze kodiak.toml found in tRPC source code.

Kodiak

Automate your GitHub Pull Requests using Kodiak

1. Auto Update — Keep your PRs up to date with master automatically

2. Auto Merge — Add the automerge label to auto merge once CI and Approvals pass.

3. Bot Collaboration — Combine Kodiak with a dependency bot (dependabot, snyk, greenskeeper.io) to automate updating of dependencies

When you visit kodiak’s website, you will find that Kodiak is a tool that

automates Github pull requests.

Check out its quick start guide.

kodiak.yaml in trpc repository:

The below code snippet is picked from .kodiak.toml

# .kodiak.toml
version = 1
[approve]
auto_approve_usernames = ["dependabot", "renovate"]
[merge]
method = "squash"
automerge_label = ["🚀 merge", "⬆️ dependencies"]
[merge.automerge_dependencies]
# only auto merge "minor" and "patch" version upgrades.
versions = ["minor", "patch"]
usernames = ["dependabot", "renovate"]
[update]
autoupdate_label = "♻️ autoupdate"

Let’s now refer to the documentation based on this configuration file. The first option is approve. If a PR is opened by a user with a username in the approve.auto_approve_usernames list, Kodiak will automatically add an approval to the PR. Read more about approve.

Next option in above file is merge. It has two variables set, method and automerge_label. Label your pull request with the kodiak: merge.method = ‘rebase’ label, for example, to set merge.method to “rebase” for your pull request. Read more about merge. automerge_label is a label to enable Kodiak to merge a PR. Kodiak can only merge pull requests passing your GitHub branch protection rules.If multiple labels are specified in an array, any of the specified labels will trigger merge.

[merge.automerge_dependencies]
# only auto merge "minor" and "patch" version upgrades.
versions = ["minor", "patch"]
usernames = ["dependabot", "renovate"]

Kodiak will only automerge dependency upgrades for pull request authors in this list. Check out automerge_dependenciesusernames.

[update]
autoupdate_label = "♻️ autoupdate"

Pull requests with the update.autoupdate_label will be updated when they are out-of-date with their base branch.

Checkout Configuration Reference for a comprehensive list of

configuration options.

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References:

1. https://kodiakhq.com/

2. https://github.com/trpc/trpc/blob/next/.kodiak.toml