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link doesn't recognize a branch's existing merged/closed PR, tries to create a duplicate

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#373 0 comentarios 1 reacción 0 asignados Ver en GitHub

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Evaluación

Dificultad
3/5
Tiempo estimado
1-2 días
Aptitud para principiantes
66/100
Tipo de issue
Error
Claridad
Bastante claro
Estado de actividad
Tranquilo
Stack tecnológico
github, go
Área
api, cli

Línea de trabajo

Comienza en el punto de entrada gh stack link y sigue la búsqueda de PR existentes antes de que se llame a createPullRequest. Reproduce el problema con ramas fusionadas y cerradas, y compáralo después con gh pr list --head <branch> --state all. Se considera terminado cuando se reconocen los PR existentes en cualquier estado y no se intenta crear ninguno duplicado.

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Descripción

bug topic: cli - link

Summary

gh stack link looks up an existing PR for each branch argument, but the lookup appears scoped to open PRs only. For a branch whose PR already merged or was closed (unmerged), link reports no PR found and attempts to create a new one — contradicting the documented additive-only design ("existing PRs are never removed").

Repro

  1. Build a stack main <- a <- b <- c <- d <- e via gh stack link.
  2. Merge a and b. Close c without merging (its content landed elsewhere, or it was abandoned).
  3. Later, run gh stack link again with the full historical branch list (e.g. to fix d's base after c closed):
    gh stack link a b c d e --base main

Actual

Checking existing stacks...
Pushing N branches to origin...
Looking up PRs for 5 branches...
Found PR #.. for branch d
Found PR #.. for branch e
Creating 3 PRs...
✗ failed to create PR for branch a: creating PR: GraphQL: was submitted too quickly, Head sha can't be blank, Base sha can't be blank, No commits between main and a, Head ref must be a branch (createPullRequest)

Only the still-open branches (d, e) were recognized as "Found PR". The merged branch a (whose content is already in main, hence "No commits between main and a") and the closed branch c were both treated as PR-less and queued for creation.

In my case the create call failed immediately on the first attempt (an already-merged branch has no diff vs. its base, so createPullRequest rejects it), so no duplicate PR was actually created — I confirmed this via gh pr list --head <branch> --state all for each affected branch afterward. But this looks like it depends on the specific branch/repo state; a branch that still has some diff against the base (e.g. a closed-but-unmerged PR whose branch wasn't cleaned up) would likely succeed in creating a genuine duplicate PR.

Expected

link's PR lookup should match a branch's PR regardless of state (open, closed, or merged) before deciding whether to create a new one, consistent with the "existing PRs are never removed" behavior documented for this command.

Environment

gh-stack version 0.0.8, installed via gh extension install github/gh-stack.

Related: #372 (same investigation session, different symptom of the same overall stack-mutation scenario — see also the atomicity issue I'm filing separately).

Lenguaje dominante
Go
Estrellas
1.5k
Forks
73
Merge medio
1 d 8 h
PR fusionados (30 d)
7

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