close

The close action closes the pull request — without merging it.

Options

Key Name	Value Type	Default	Value Description
message	Template	This pull request has been automatically closed by Mergify.	The message to write as a comment after closing the pull request.

Examples

❌ Automatically close pull request touching a file

If you wanted to automatically close pull request that touches a certain file, let's say do_not_touch.txt, you could write a rule such as:

pull_request_rules:
  - name: disallow changing a file
    conditions:
      - files=do_not_touch.txt
    actions:
      close: