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`gh stack submit` with PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md that has `CRLF` line endings

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
55/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
git, go
Domain
cli

Research direction

Reproduce the issue on Windows with a CRLF PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md, then trace the gh stack submit path that loads the template and opens the editor. Confirm the fix by checking that the template displays without extra line endings and that the existing workaround is no longer needed.

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Description

bug topic: cli - submit

Problem
Submit is rendering extra line endings when it sees CRLF. Opening in the $EDITOR also has these extra line endings.

Descirption
When developing on Windows, it is common for git to normalize line endings to CRLF and then back to LF on commit.

On Windows, given a template with the following:

Image

It opens in the submit editor like this (each red mark is an extra newline):

Image

I replaced CRLF with LF, and then it works fine.

I have workarounds, just a minor inconvenience.

Dominant language
Go
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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