arts | January 15, 2026

merge-pull-request-by-fast-forward — AWS CLI 2.0.34 Command Reference

Description

Attempts to merge the source commit of a pull request into the specified destination branch for that pull request at the specified commit using the fast-forward merge strategy. If the merge is successful, it closes the pull request.

See also: AWS API Documentation

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Options

--pull-request-id (string)

The system-generated ID of the pull request. To get this ID, use ListPullRequests .

--repository-name (string)

The name of the repository where the pull request was created.

--source-commit-id (string)

The full commit ID of the original or updated commit in the pull request source branch. Pass this value if you want an exception thrown if the current commit ID of the tip of the source branch does not match this commit ID.

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.

--cli-auto-prompt (boolean) Automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples

To merge and close a pull request

This example demonstrates how to merge and close a pull request with the ID of ‘47’ and a source commit ID of ‘99132ab0EXAMPLE’ in a repository named ‘MyDemoRepo’:

aws codecommit merge-pull-request-by-fast-forward --pull-request-id 47 --source-commit-id 99132ab0EXAMPLE --repository-name MyDemoRepo

Output:

{ "pullRequest": { "authorArn": "arn:aws:iam::111111111111:user/Li_Juan", "clientRequestToken": "", "creationDate": 1508530823.142, "description": "Review the latest changes and updates to the global variables", "lastActivityDate": 1508887223.155, "pullRequestId": "47", "pullRequestStatus": "CLOSED", "pullRequestTargets": [ { "destinationCommit": "9f31c968EXAMPLE", "destinationReference": "refs/heads/master", "mergeMetadata": { "isMerged": true, "mergedBy": "arn:aws:iam::111111111111:user/Mary_Major" }, "repositoryName": "MyDemoRepo", "sourceCommit": "99132ab0EXAMPLE", "sourceReference": "refs/heads/variables-branch" } ], "title": "Consolidation of global variables" }}