Dismiss Reviews

Optimize your pull request workflow, tailoring review dismissal to specific scenarios and users.

Keeping your reviews up to date is essential to maintain a coherent and reliable development workflow. Mergify offers a granular approach with the dismiss_reviews action.

Conditional Triggers: Only dismiss reviews when specific conditions on the pull request are met.
Selective Removal: Choose to remove only approvals, only reviews from particular users, or only changes requested.
Targeted Dismissal: Dismiss reviews only from users that are in the requested reviewers list.
Event-driven: Opt to have the action run when a PR is pushed again or keep it active continuously.

There are multiple scenarios where you can use this action to automatically remove change requests or approvals.

Re-Review on Push

Automatically dismiss reviews when new commits are pushed to a PR targeting the main branch with a “re-review” label:

pull_request_rules:
  - name: dismiss reviews when new commits are pushed, if the label "re-review" is present
    conditions:
      - base=main
      - label=re-review
    actions:
      dismiss_reviews:

Team-based Review Dismissal

Retain the approvals if the author is from a trusted team, even if they update their code:

pull_request_rules:
  - name: remove outdated reviews for non trusted authors
    conditions:
      - base=main
      - author!=@mytrustedteam
    actions:
      dismiss_reviews:

Specific User-based Review Dismissal

Dismiss reviews from specific users, which can be useful if you have a bot user or a particular reviewer whose comments might not be relevant upon code changes:

pull_request_rules:
  - name: remove reviews from the bot when the PR is updated
    conditions:
      - base=main
    actions:
      dismiss_reviews:
        approved:
          - mybotusername
        changes_requested:
          - mybotusername

Dismiss Reviews When Request Review

When a user request a new review from a reviewer, asking for a review does not dismiss the current review from the reviewer. You can do that using this snippet:

pull_request_rules:
  - name: dismiss reviews when review is requested
    conditions:
      - base=main
    actions:
      dismiss_reviews:
        approved: from_requested_reviewers
        changes_requested: from_requested_reviewers
        when: always
        message: "Review dismissed due to new review request."

Use Cases