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Merge Freeze is a Github app that allows dev teams to block merging at certain times of the week or during one-off situations.

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Merge Freeze never has access to your codebase

Anyone in your team can temporarily block merging

Schedule recurring freezes so you can’t merge at certain times of the day, week or month.

Access the current Merge Freeze status of your repository or trigger a freeze using our API.

Freeze your repository with a simple /mergefreeze command.

Install our verified app through Oauth in the official Github Marketplace

We use Github to identify users since we need to access the Github API to see which repositories have the app installed.

The Github app needs to be installed on at least one repository in order for it to be useful.

Pick a branch in your repository that you’d like to protect with Merge Freeze (usually main/master).

Once you’ve added the app to your Slack workspace you will be prompted to pick a channel for the notifications to be sent to.

: Nope, not even 1 line. You'll see during the GitHub authorization flow that we don't request this scope, nor do we need it. Merge Freeze leverages Github's Status/Checks API to accomplish this.
: Yes. Whichever member authorizes Merge Freeze is by default the admin user, and they have additional permissions in our dashboard UI.
: Install the Merge Freeze free (open source) plan on your organization, then email us at [email protected] with the plan you want to try out (Reactive or Proactive - the latter supports scheduled freezes) and your organization's GitHub slug username. We'll whitelist your organization to install without a credit card.

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