Kouhei Sutou created ARROW-16602:
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Summary: [Dev] Use GitHub API to merge pull request
Key: ARROW-16602
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-16602
Project: Apache Arrow
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Developer Tools
Reporter: Kouhei Sutou
Assignee: Kouhei Sutou
We use local "git merge" to merge a pull request in {{dev/merge_arrow_pr.py}}.
If we use "git merge" to merge a pull request, GitHub's Web UI shows "Closed"
mark not "Merged" mark in a pull request page. This sometimes confuses new
contributors. "Why was my pull request closed without merging?" See
https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/12004#issuecomment-1031619771 for example.
If we use GitHub API
https://docs.github.com/en/rest/pulls/pulls#merge-a-pull-request to merge a
pull request, GitHub's Web UI shows "Merged" mark not "Closed" mark. See
https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/13180 for example. I used GitHub API to
merge the pull request.
And we don't need to create a local branch on local repository to merge a pull
request. But we must specify {{ARROW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN}} to run
{{dev/merge_arrow_pr.py}}.
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