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title: "Clearer reason when the merge queue can't create the draft pull request"
date: 2026-08-25
tags:
  - Merge Queue
description: "The dequeue reason now carries GitHub's own refusal message, including the repository rule that blocked the push."
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When GitHub refuses the draft pull request the merge queue builds for a batch, the dequeue reason no longer stops at "The draft pull request cannot be created". It now quotes what GitHub said — including the repository rule that blocked the push and the link to its settings page.

One case gets an explicit remedy: a ruleset requiring verified signatures. Mergify composes batch commits itself and has no signing key, so the fix is to add the Mergify app as a bypass actor on that rule.