Azure Devops Disable Pull Request Auto-Complete

Question

Azure devops has a "set Auto-Complete" button that allows PRs to be automatically completed if it meets the guidelines set for the repo. How is functionality disabled? I see no toggle switch or settings section devoted to disabling it.

Answer 1

How is functionality disabled? I see no toggle switch or settings section devoted to disabling it.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

This behavior is by designed. Azure devops does not have such settings to disable the option of auto-complete for all pull request at this moment.

You could add your request for this feature on our UserVoice site (https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/idea/post.html?space=21 ), which is our main forum for product suggestions. Thank you for helping us build a better Azure DevOps.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

If you have branch policies on the repository then "Set auto-complete" will always display (documentation).

Is there a reason why you want to disable this option? If the branch policies are satisfied presumably you're happy for the pull request to be merged manually? The auto-complete option means developers don't have to sit and wait for a CI build to finish for example. If you really want manual intervention from a particular developer, you could add them as a required reviewer to the branch policy. If you want to do this for all repositories in a team project you can use cross-repo policies (nice blog). Hope this helps!