v0.0.6

Note

Stacked PRs is currently in private preview. This CLI and the referenced functionality will not work unless the feature has been enabled for your repository.
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gh-stack is a GitHub CLI extension for managing stacked branches and pull requests. Learn more about GitHub Stacked PRs here.

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gh extension upgrade stack

What's new in v0.0.6

Added

• gh stack rebase --no-trunk: New flag that runs only the inter-branch cascade rebase, skipping all remote fetch and trunk operations so you can align branches without touching the network.
• PR URL arguments: gh stack link and gh stack checkout now accept full PR URLs (e.g. https://github.com/org/repo/pull/42) in addition to PR numbers and branch names.
• Cached remote selection: After interactively choosing a remote, you can save it to gh-stack.remote git config so you're not prompted on every operation.
• PAT auth warning: When authenticated with an unsupported personal access token, the CLI now shows a clear "run gh auth login" message instead of a misleading "Stacked PRs are not enabled" error.

Changed

• gh stack link PR eligibility validation: Merged, closed, merge-queued, or auto-merge-enabled PRs are now rejected up front with per-PR error messages before any stack operations run.
• Auto-merge disabled on adopted PRs: gh stack submit now detects and disables auto-merge on existing PRs it adopts, preventing them from merging independently and breaking the stack.
• gh stack init no longer silently detects prefixes: Explicit branch names with slashes are taken literally; use --prefix to opt into a prefix.

Fixed

• git push failures with stale tracking refs: Push now fetches and builds explicit --force-with-lease leases per branch, fixing "stale info" rejections for branches lacking a local tracking ref.
• gh stack sync with no local trunk: Sync now skips the trunk fast-forward silently when only the remote tracking ref exists, avoiding spurious rebases and force-pushes.
• Missing local trunk crashes: A new ensureLocalTrunk helper fetches and creates the trunk branch for modify, rebase, and trunk when it only exists on the remote (e.g. after renaming the initial branch).

Changelog

• Bump github.com/cli/cli/v2 from 2.92.0 to 2.93.0 in the go_modules group across 1 directory by @dependabot[bot] in #110
• link PR validation by @skarim in #112
• alert for unsupported auth tokens by @skarim in #113
• disable automerge when adding existing PRs to stack by @skarim in #120
• parse PR URLs in args by @skarim in #122
• fix push for branches with stale tracking refs by @skarim in #124
• fix for sync with no local trunk by @skarim in #125
• remove silent prefix detection in init by @skarim in #126
• ensure local trunk branch for required operations by @skarim in #127
• cache selected remote by @skarim in #128
• rebase without trunk by @skarim in #129

Full Diff: v0.0.5...v0.0.6