In Part 1 we implemented cascading merges in GitHub Actions. The implementation used release branches named release/YEAR.MONTH. (for example release/2022.10). In this part we’ll add another workflow that creates new release branches automatically every month. Why create release branches automatically The first release branch naming we looked at resembled Semantic Versioning, which is simple and…

Cascading merges, also called Automatic branch merging, is a feature I personally got to know in Bitbucket server almost 10 years ago. This post walks through how we implemented cascading merges in GitHub Actions at Joshu. This post covers a very simple implementation that worked great for us, different organizations…