Unwanted upstream degradation from this app.

[eddyb]

I've started to recently observe some anomalies in GitHub's commit->PR references, e.g. rust-lang/rust@33caf0b doesn't point to the rust-lang/rust#67800 PR, which it was a part of.

Instead, it points to https://github.com/nifftytech/rust/pull/85, which is a fork using this pull app to keep up to date.
If #57 had been fixed then this wouldn't really be a problem, because there would be no PRs to confuse GitHub, but as it stands this is undesireable for upstream rust-lang/rust.

Arguably this is partly a @github bug, in that it shouldn't care about forks as much as it seems to right now, but until that changes, using PRs should be considered intrusive (and not just in terms of notifications) and to be avoided at all cost.

I will try to get in contact with someone from @nifftytech and ask them to disable this app and remake the fork, hopefully that would fix GitHub's references.

[wei]

Do you have a ticket open with GitHub regarding this? PRs can also be created manually with the same behavior you're seeing.

[ghost]

Hi @wei, @eddyb,

I'm the owner of the Org @nifftytech (an org I made mostly for personal projects), and I've just removed the pull app from each of the apps from the organization.

I can delete the fork, but wanted to make sure that if I did it doesn't lead to problems with the upstream rust-lang/rust repo

[eddyb]

@vyasknellutla Hi, I was just about to reply to your emails.
Thanks a lot for getting back to me!

I can delete the fork, but wanted to make sure that if I did it doesn't lead to problems with the upstream rust-lang/rust repo

No, it shouldn't cause problems, and it should fix the problem we're seeing here.

However, I'm submitting a GitHub support request right now, so if you can keep it around until they acknowledge the problem, that would be helpful in demonstrating it.

[ghost]

@eddyb

However, I'm submitting a GitHub support request right now, so if you can keep it around until they acknowledge the problem, that would be helpful in demonstrating it.

Sure thing!

And sorry for the delayed reply, I hope it didn't cause much damage in the meantime 😅

[eddyb]

I hope it didn't cause much damage in the meantime

To be clear, while this is annoying, it just breaks looking up pull requests from commits in the GitHub UI, which I mostly do when using its "blame" views. Since reporting this I haven't needed it again.

[wei]

Please reply if GitHub provides any updates. In the meantime, feel free to checkout my GitHub Action to support this and many other use cases (without pull request): https://github.com/marketplace/actions/git-sync-action

[eddyb]

Some time since I reported it and before they got back to me, the problem got fixed, and I think the support person replying to me didn't realize what I meant because they saw the fixed version, heh.