Add merge_group event handling

Author: reakaleek

.github/workflows/preview-build.yml

@@ -36,18 +36,19 @@ jobs:
   build:
     concurrency:
       group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.head.ref || github.ref }}
-      cancel-in-progress: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request_target' }}
+      cancel-in-progress: ${{ startsWith(github.event_name, 'pull_request') }}
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
 
       - name: Get changed files
-        if: github.event_name == 'pull_request_target'
+        if: startsWith(github.event_name, 'pull_request') || github.event_name == 'merge_group'
         id: check-files
         uses: tj-actions/changed-files@d6e91a2266cdb9d62096cebf1e8546899c6aa18f # v45.0.6
         with:
           files: ${{ inputs.path-pattern != '' && inputs.path-pattern || '**' }}
 
       - name: Free Disk Space
+        if: github.event_name != 'merge_group'
         uses: jlumbroso/free-disk-space@main
         with:
           tool-cache: false
@@ -58,9 +59,9 @@ jobs:
         with:
           ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.ref }}
           persist-credentials: false
-
+          
       - name: Create Deployment
-        if: github.event_name == 'push' || steps.check-files.outputs.any_changed == 'true'
+        if: github.event_name == 'push' || (steps.check-files.outputs.any_changed == 'true' && startsWith(github.event_name, 'pull_request'))
         uses: actions/github-script@v7
         id: deployment
         env:
@@ -127,15 +128,15 @@ jobs:
           dotnet run --project src/docs-builder -- --strict --path-prefix "${PATH_PREFIX}"
 
       - name: Build documentation
-        if: github.repository != 'elastic/docs-builder' && steps.deployment.outputs.result
+        if: github.repository != 'elastic/docs-builder' && steps.deployment.outputs.result || github.event_name == 'merge_group'
         uses: elastic/docs-builder@main
         continue-on-error: ${{ fromJSON(inputs.continue-on-error != '' && inputs.continue-on-error || 'false') }}
         with:
           prefix: ${{ env.PATH_PREFIX }}
           strict: ${{ fromJSON(inputs.strict != '' && inputs.strict || 'true') }}
 
       - uses: elastic/docs-builder/actions/validate-inbound-local@main
-        if: ${{ !cancelled() && steps.deployment.outputs.result }}
+        if: ${{ !cancelled() && (steps.deployment.outputs.result || github.event_name == 'merge_group') }}
 
       - uses: elastic/docs-builder/.github/actions/aws-auth@main
         if: ${{ !cancelled() && steps.deployment.outputs.result }}