Could someone help me out with trying to get Renov...

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[Adam S]

Could someone help me out with trying to get Renovate + auto-merging working with my project? https://github.com/adamko-dev/kotlinx-serialization-typescript-generator

• I’ve enabled automerge in renovate.json5
• in the branch protection rule for main pull requests are required, but I’ve added Renovate in ‘Allow specified actors to bypass required pull requests’ and also to ‘Restrict who can push to matching branches’
• I’ve tried enabling/disabling the ‘merge queue’ config, to no effect
• in the general settings, all types of PR merges are enabled
but Renovate always says “Branch automerge failure: This PR was configured for branch automerge. However, this is not possible, so it has been raised as a PR instead”

[Adam S]

I finally got it working! The trick was deleting the branches and renaming the PRs, otherwise Renovate would just re-use the same broken configuration and would ignore any changes I made.

[Piotr Krzemiński]

Wow, that's tricky. I was fighting with a similar problem myself, and in my case the core thing was to disable file ownership (CODEOWNERS file)