Bitrise Checks on GitHub Checks

Bitrise Checks is a Github app which provides an extended version of the classic status checks Bitrise sends back to GitHub. Bitrise Checks include a Bitrise build summary and a check status. You can view Bitrise Checks if you click the Details link of a pull request on GitHub. It unfolds the detailed build summary and build status Bitrise Checks attaches to your pull request on the Checks tab of GitHub.

There can be three different check statuses:

• Success.
• Failed.
• Action required (in the case of manual pull request approval).

Installing Bitrise Checks ⚓

Using Bitrise Checks is just a few clicks away. Let’s do this!

1. Select your organization’s app on your Dashboard.
2. Select the Settings tab of your app.

3. Click the install our app to your GitHub repository LINK in the ENABLE GITHUB CHECKS toggle’s description. Don’t toggle the switch just yet, since you first need to install Bitrise Checks. We will get to enabling the toggle later.

   

   This link will take you to GitHub’s Bitrise Checks installation page.

4. On the Install Bitrise Checks page, select the user or organization you want to add Bitrise Checks to.

   

5. Decide if you wish to install Bitrise Checks to all your repositories or just to a selected few. With this you grant rights to Bitrise Checks to integrate with your repository and use GitHub Checks to display check results.

   

6. In the GitHub prompt, provide your GitHub password.

If all goes well, you land on the Bitrise Checks page of GitHub. You should see a blue note at the top-left corner of the page that Bitrise Checks has been successfully installed on your GitHub account.

Enabling GitHub Checks ⚓

All there’s left to do is enabling GitHub Checks on your app’s page on Bitrise.

1. Go to your organization’s Dashboard.
2. Click the app whose GitHub repository you’ve installed the Bitrise Checks to.
3. Go to the Settings tab of the app.
4. Toggle the ENABLE GITHUB CHECKS switch to the right.

Why can’t you toggle the ENABLE GITHUB CHECKS switch?

• You cannot toggle the switch unless you install Bitrise Checks FIRST. Once it’s done, you can go ahead and toggle the switch to the right to enable it.

• If you have renamed or moved the GitHub repository of an app which has already been added to Bitrise and you have installed Bitrise Checks on it. The repository’s GitHub URL has obviously changed. Why bother? ENABLE GITHUB CHECKS switch can only work if the URL on Github and on Bitrise fully match (no redirect URL is allowed). So in this case, you have to manually update the REPOSITORY URL of your app on the Settings tab with the new GitHub URL.

  

And you’re done! Now any pull request you open to your app on GitHub will be validated with Bitrise Checks and a build will get automatically started on Bitrise (if the pull request trigger is properly set on Bitrise).

You can easily get to your app’s page on Bitrise. If you click on the build summary or on View more details on Bitrise Checks link on the Checks tab, you’ll quickly get to your app’s Build page.

Switching to Bitrise Checks ⚓

If you have been already using status checks on pull requests prior to merging, it must have been the ci/bitrise/... check system. To be able to use Bitrise Checks, you have to manually switch from ci/bitrise/... to Bitrise to access those detailed checks. Let’s see how!

1. Go to the Settings tab of your repository.

2. Click Branches on the side menu. Under Require status checks to pass before merging, you can see ci/bitrise/... as the selected checks system.

   

3. Select Bitrise instead of ci/bitrise/....
4. Merge a pull request.

Disabling Github Checks ⚓

You can easily disable GitHub Checks on Bitrise if you toggle the ENABLE GITHUB CHECKS switch to the left on the Settings page of the app.

If you decide to uninstall Bitrise Checks from your GitHub account, you can click the Uninstall button on the Install GitHub Apps page.

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