stacked-pr-base-branch-deletion-auto-closes-dependent

Name: stacked-pr-base-branch-deletion-auto-closes-dependent
Author: wan-huiyan

Recover from the trap where deleting a base PR's branch (via `gh api -X DELETE refs/heads/<branch>`) auto-closes any open dependent stacked PR, and the closed PR cannot be reopened or retargeted. Use when: (1) you set up a stacked PR pair (PR2's `base` field = PR1's branch instead of `main`), (2) you merged PR1 via squash, (3) you then deleted PR1's remote branch via the API (because `gh pr merge

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Stacked PR: Base-Branch Deletion Auto-Closes the Dependent PR

Problem

You have a stacked PR pair:

PR1 — base: main, head: feature-pr1
PR2 — base: feature-pr1, head: feature-pr2 (stacked on PR1)

You squash-merge PR1. The merge succeeds. You then run:

gh api -X DELETE repos/<owner>/<repo>/git/refs/heads/feature-pr1

…to clean up the orphaned remote branch (because gh pr merge --delete-branch failed locally with the worktree-checkout-trap and you used the

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