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Renaming a stacked branch with `git branch -m` strands the stack: metadata keeps the old name

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Evaluación

Dificultad
4/5
Tiempo estimado
3-5 días
Aptitud para principiantes
35/100
Tipo de issue
Error
Claridad
Bien especificado
Estado de actividad
Tranquilo
Stack tecnológico
git, go

Línea de trabajo

Comienza en cmd/utils.go con el error del branch actual y luego sigue resolveStack, FindAllStacksForBranch y Stack.Contains en internal/stack/stack.go. Revisa el uso de git.BranchExists y el manejo de renombrados en internal/modify/apply.go, incluida la reparación basada en el reflog descrita en el issue. El trabajo estará terminado cuando un branch renombrado externamente se diagnostique y pueda repararse o eliminarse sin requerir un número de stack.

Escrito por el modelo de indexación a partir del texto del issue.

Descripción

feature request topic: cli - general
Summary

gh stack matches the current branch against .git/gh-stack by exact string
(resolveStackFindAllStacksForBranchStack.Contains, cmd/utils.go:395,
internal/stack/stack.go:241). Renaming a stacked branch with git branch -m is not
observed, so the stack file keeps pointing at a name that no longer exists and every
stack command bails out with the same generic message.

gh stack modify already renames a branch in git and in the stack file together
(internal/modify/apply.go:190-228, verified: both .git/gh-stack and the git branch are
updated), so the invariant is understood. This issue is about a rename performed outside
gh-stack, which is how most people rename a branch.

Related but distinct: #137 reaches the same stranded state through sync --prune
(branch deleted, stack entry left behind), and #193 is the same family of "git operations
performed outside gh-stack aren't observed".

Reproduction

Requires an origin remote, but the repository need not exist.

git init repro && cd repro
git commit --allow-empty -m initial
git remote add origin https://github.com/you/does-not-exist.git
git switch -c feat/test
git commit --allow-empty -m wip

gh stack init feat/test      # ✓ Adopted 1 branch: main ← feat/test
gh stack view --short        # ✓ works

git branch -m feat/test-1

gh stack view                # ✗ broken from here on

gh stack init with no arguments errors with "interactive input required", so the branch
name is passed explicitly to keep the repro scriptable.

Observed

.git/gh-stack is byte-identical before and after the rename; it still records
"branch": "feat/test".

Command Output
gh stack view ✗ current branch "feat/test-1" is not part of a stack
gh stack add feat/test-2 same
gh stack unstack / unstack --local same
gh stack checkout feat/test (old name) ✗ failed to checkout feat/test: failed to run git: error: pathspec 'feat/test' did not match any file(s) known to git
gh stack checkout feat/test-1 (new name) ✗ no locally tracked stack found for "feat/test-1"

gh stack unstack <n> --local would remove the entry, but a stack that has not been
submitted has no stack number (Number int \json:"number,omitempty"``,
internal/stack/stack.go:46), so it cannot be targeted:

$ gh stack unstack 1 --local
✗ stack #1 is not tracked locally

With no gh stack list (#150) and an interactive-only checkout picker, the ways out are
renaming the branch back (verified: this fully restores the stack) or editing
.git/gh-stack by hand.

Expected
  1. Diagnose instead of denying. Before printing "is not part of a stack"
    (cmd/utils.go:234-243), check whether a recorded stack references a branch that no
    longer exists. git.BranchExists is already used throughout (cmd/sync.go:413,
    cmd/modify.go:315, …). checkout should also stop surfacing git's raw
    pathspec ... did not match error.

  2. Leave an escape hatch. Removing or repairing a stack whose branches are missing
    should not require a stack number — this is the part #137 also runs into.

  3. Offer to repair. git records the rename in the reflog:

    feat/test-1@{0}: Branch: renamed refs/heads/feat/test to refs/heads/feat/test-1
    

    so the stack file can be updated after confirming with the user. Reflog entries expire,
    so this complements 1 rather than replacing it.

I have a patch implementing 1 and 3 and will open a PR referencing this issue.

Environment
  • gh stack v0.1.0
  • macOS 24.6.0 (Darwin, arm64)
Lenguaje dominante
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