Builds are "Not run" after merging to develop ("Only build PRs" is on, but develop is a default branch)

Adding an answer here since I had a similar problem.
It might not 100% the case in point, but there are more than one similarity.

I solved it by following this solution. Basically I stopped building the project and re-started building again right after.

In retrospect I now understand that in my case this happened:

  • I set up the project on Circle CI with master as my default branch and “only build PRs” on)
  • Everything was running normally
  • I switched default branch to develop
  • Soon after builds stopped because of this bug

Hopefully this helps someone.