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Keep on getting `invalid changes in the merge commit`

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
github, go
Domain
cli, devtools

Research direction

Start by reproducing the stacked-PR scenario described with the linked lemonade pull request and examine how gh-stack interacts with GitHub's merge queue. Done means a queued stack can advance after one layer merges without later layers being repeatedly removed for "invalid changes in the merge commit."

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Description

In github.com/lemonade-sdk/lemonade we use squash merging and also use a merge queue. In experimenting with stacks we keep running into this situation:

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Pretty much we queue up the entire stack, one layer merges and the rest are pulled. So then we have to monitor the next layer, requeue all of them etc.

The entire stack that showed this problem is here:
https://github.com/lemonade-sdk/lemonade/pull/3584

You can see the earlier layers how many times they got pulled out of the merge queue because of "invalid changes in the merge commit".

Dominant language
Go
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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