I have a pro vercel subscription. I have my github connected, and I set up a hook so that I can manually push from main and that works.

I want:

1. Automatic preview pushes and branches from all branches
2. Automatic preview branches specifically configured

None of these work, and I haven't been able to debug this

Here is what I have for attempting to configure the "stage" branch:

Needless to say, I HAVE pushed a new commit to "stage", and also to "somebranch"

Nothing happens when I push to any branch (including main, stage and any other).

The only way for me to trigger a deploy is manually calling the hook I set on it, manually.

How to get vercel to do the most basic build-on-push?

I have a pro vercel subscription. I have my github connected, and I set up a hook so that I can manually push from main and that works.

I want:

1. Automatic preview pushes and branches from all branches
2. Automatic preview branches specifically configured

None of these work, and I haven't been able to debug this

Here is what I have for attempting to configure the "stage" branch:

Needless to say, I HAVE pushed a new commit to "stage", and also to "somebranch"

Nothing happens when I push to any branch (including main, stage and any other).

The only way for me to trigger a deploy is manually calling the hook I set on it, manually.

How to get vercel to do the most basic build-on-push?

• deployment
• vercel
• cicd

1 Answer 1

The problem was the LOCAL git config name and email did not match the one connected to vercel via "connect git account".

I had to change the LOCAL git config

git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

to the one corresponding with the repo connected to vercel.

This is what their support told me to do and it solved the problem.

Is it dumb? -- Yes.

It does not add security.
It breaks encapsulation.
It uses something that's meant to be purely visual for git commits.

I wrote that to their support, and they didn't seem to even understand, so I left it. If it works it works.

Very dumb design.