Broken main, flaky tests, blocked engineers.
That pain is what gave birth to merge queues — long before GitHub shipped theirs.
Mozilla, Shopify, Uber, and Strava all hacked their own.
I dug into the origin story 👇
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The Origin Story of Merge Queues — Mergify
From Bors and Homu to Bulldozer, Kodiak, Mergify, and now GitHub and GitLab, merge queues have shaped how we keep main branches green. This article traces their history, why they emerged, and how they...
