github/gh-stack

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Forks: 73
Open beginner issues: 9
Indexed issues: 132
Avg merge: 1d 8h
Merged PRs (30d): 7

Dominant language: Go
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Aug 27, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 16, 2026
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Stacked PR keeps a stale head after its branch is rewritten server-side: merge box spins on "loading stack status", and both update-branch and merge refuse Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

github/gh-stack#519 · Opened Sep 22, 2026
Please allow both `gh stack` and `gh stacks` commands to work Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

github/gh-stack#518 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Error given when a push fails due to hook failure is not useful Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

github/gh-stack#517 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Add a way to sync a stack from the remote without pushing Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

github/gh-stack#516 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 21, 2026
gh stack checkout only works for formal stacks Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

github/gh-stack#515 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Add an `--admin` bypass flag to `gh stack merge`, matching `gh pr merge --admin` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

github/gh-stack#514 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
`gh stack rebase` uses the wrong onto boundary for merged branches Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 84/100

github/gh-stack#512 · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Keep on getting `invalid changes in the merge commit` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

github/gh-stack#511 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
An upstream PR cannot use a fork branch as its base, even with write access to both repos Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

github/gh-stack#510 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 15, 2026
`gh stack submit` fails on forks by attempting to create PRs on upstream repository (`Head sha can't be blank`) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

github/gh-stack#509 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 13, 2026
Feature Request: Add `gh stack split` to split the current branch at a chosen commit Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

github/gh-stack#508 · 7 reactions · Opened Sep 11, 2026
There seems to be a GitHub Stack merge race condition Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

github/gh-stack#505 · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 10, 2026
A stacked pull request cannot use auto-merge Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

github/gh-stack#504 · 7 reactions · Opened Sep 9, 2026
Stack panel says a pull request is queued when it has no queue entry Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

github/gh-stack#503 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 9, 2026
Merge queue rebases a fast-forward and re-runs CI above it Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

github/gh-stack#502 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 9, 2026
Outdated version number in skill file Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 92/100

github/gh-stack#499 · Opened Sep 8, 2026
Can't merge the stack: either stuck while merging via GitHub UI, or getting false-negative error via CLI Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

github/gh-stack#498 · 2 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Sep 7, 2026
merge-async accepts a GitHub App installation token, then fails with “Enqueuer is not authorized to merge” Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

github/gh-stack#497 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 5, 2026
gh stack link --remote <fork> queries the fork’s parent repository Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

github/gh-stack#496 · Opened Sep 5, 2026
gh stack rebase replays the same child commit twice on v0.1.1 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

github/gh-stack#495 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Allow editing commit messages when merging a stack Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

github/gh-stack#493 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
`gh stack submit` does not respect org-wide PR template Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

github/gh-stack#492 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
gh stack init silently recreates an existing branch from trunk (instead of adopting it) when only a remote-tracking ref exists, and submit force-pushes over the real branch, destroying its history and closing its PR Open

bug topic: cli - init

github/gh-stack#489 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 28, 2026
Detect and prevent empty-diff PRs from being auto-marked as merged during stack submit Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

github/gh-stack#488 · Opened Aug 28, 2026
`gh skill install github/gh-stack` gets stuck in `? Filter skills` prompt Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

github/gh-stack#487 · Opened Aug 27, 2026
Partial merge leaves stale stack base and Rebase stack replays merged commits Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

github/gh-stack#485 · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 27, 2026
`gh stack sync` can't be run anywhere in the repository Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

github/gh-stack#483 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 26, 2026
submit marks existing draft PRs ready for review without --open, firing review requests Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

github/gh-stack#481 · Opened Aug 26, 2026
init writes branch.<name>.remote = '.', so submit reports a push that never happened Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

github/gh-stack#480 · Opened Aug 26, 2026
sync reports success (exit 0) when its internal push fails Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

github/gh-stack#472 · Opened Aug 24, 2026
rebase discards a still-valid recorded base after the parent's history is edited, replaying the parent's old commits Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

github/gh-stack#471 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 24, 2026
One-PR stack: submit reports success, but merge says the stack was not submitted Open

bug topic: cli - submit

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

github/gh-stack#467 · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Add `--stagger <duration>` to space out branch pushes and avoid duplicate CI runs Open

feature request topic: cli - push

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

github/gh-stack#466 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 23, 2026
stack submit reports success (push + PR creation) without actually doing either, when origin remote is an old/renamed repo name Open

bug topic: cli - submit

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

github/gh-stack#461 · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Github stack does not persist across worktrees Open

bug topic: cli - worktrees

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

github/gh-stack#459 · 1 comment · 9 reactions · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Stack should be merged when merge commit is already pushed Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

github/gh-stack#457 · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Cannot change the default base branch `main` (GraphQL: Cannot change the base branch because the pull request is part of a stack. (updatePullRequest)) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

github/gh-stack#455 · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Incorrect "PR #5 remains open" remains open after git stack modify for a PR that is already closed Open

bug topic: cli - modify

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

github/gh-stack#453 · Opened Aug 18, 2026
Add option to allow adding alias even if there's already a binary in path with that name Open

feature request topic: cli - general

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

github/gh-stack#452 · Opened Aug 18, 2026
gh-stack is impossible to install: API rate limit exceeded Open

bug topic: cli - general

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

github/gh-stack#451 · Opened Aug 18, 2026
Stack view shows "not ready" / "unable to merge as a stack" on approved mergeable PRs (stale stack UI cache) Open

bug topic: mergeability

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

github/gh-stack#450 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 18, 2026
A conflict low in a stack blocks merging PRs above it, even when they merge cleanly Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

github/gh-stack#449 · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Add support for the android-arm64 architecture Open

feature request topic: cli - general

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

github/gh-stack#447 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 15, 2026
gh stack merge retries against an unmerged base PR, then silently rebases and dismisses approvals on the dependent PR Open

bug topic: merge

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

github/gh-stack#446 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Feature request: support merge-based stack synchronization without force-pushing Open

feature request topic: rebase alternative

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

github/gh-stack#445 · 12 reactions · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Stack split across merge groups closes the pull request at the boundary instead of continuing it in the next group Open

bug topic: merge queue

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

github/gh-stack#444 · 3 comments · 20 reactions · Opened Aug 14, 2026
Stack fails to merge partway through when a branch gets automatically deleted and then the PR is automatically closed Open

bug topic: merge

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

github/gh-stack#443 · 2 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Aug 14, 2026
gh stack sync pushed a stack branch's merge commit directly onto the trunk branch (`main`) Open

bug topic: cli - sync

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

github/gh-stack#442 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
[Feature request] add `each` mode to batch edit PRs in a stack Open

feature request topic: reviews

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

github/gh-stack#441 · Opened Aug 14, 2026
No way to delete a stack locally whose branches are deleted Open

feature request topic: cli - other

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

github/gh-stack#439 · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 13, 2026

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