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A head branch can carry several PRs (one per base), so gh calls keyed by branch name can comment on, label, or retarget the wrong PR — the same ambiguous-lookup family as the bug fixed in #39. Every gh call that acts on a specific PR now uses the PR number:

  • The squash-merge fan-out carries number/branch pairs from gh pr list (numbers for gh, branches for git).
  • The conflict-resolved run gets PR_NUMBER from the event payload via action.yml.

This is also an opportunity to drop an API call: the synchronize payload already carries the PR's base branch, so the resume's manual-retarget check now reads it from a new PR_BASE env var instead of gh pr view --json baseRefName. The resume test's gh mock no longer answers baseRefName queries, so a reintroduced lookup fails loudly.

Stacked on #42 (the changes overlap in main()); this PR retargets onto main once #42 lands.

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claude added 6 commits June 9, 2026 20:49
The squash-merge fan-out retargeted every updated child PR onto the
target branch and only afterwards pushed the new heads, batched into a
single non-atomic push together with the merged-branch deletion. If the
push failed (e.g. someone pushed to a child mid-run, rejecting the plain
push) or a pr edit died partway through the loop, set -e aborted the run
with PRs already retargeted but their heads stale - and unlike the
conflict-resume path there is no label to re-trigger the action, so
nothing ever repaired them.

Apply the ordering the resume path already uses: push the updated heads
first, then flip the bases, and delete the merged branch last (deleting
a PR's base branch closes the PR, so every child must be off it first).
A failed push now leaves the PRs untouched on their old base.

The unit test captures the run transcript and asserts the
push -> retarget -> delete order; it fails against the previous code.
Also corrects the README: pushes are plain, not forced, and branch
deletion is its own final step.

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Since #40 the conflict comment's fast-forward step reads `git merge
--ff-only origin/<branch>`, which assert_conflict_comment_merges picks
up with its `^git merge` grep, so the extracted commands never match the
expected conflict merges. Skip the --ff-only line when extracting.

Also trim the new comments in the fan-out push/retarget/delete sequence.

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The fix for the --ff-only line breaking assert_conflict_comment_merges
moved to a separate PR; the e2e job here stays red until that lands and
main is merged back in.

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A head branch can carry several PRs (one per base), so gh calls keyed by
branch name can comment, label, or retarget the wrong one. Every gh call
that acts on a specific PR now uses the PR number: the fan-out carries
number/branch pairs from gh pr list, and the conflict-resolved run gets
PR_NUMBER from the event payload via action.yml.

The payload also already carries the PR's base branch, so the resume
takes it from a new PR_BASE variable instead of querying the API; the
resume test's gh mock no longer answers baseRefName queries, so a
reintroduced lookup fails loudly.

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Phlogistique added a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 9, 2026
`branches: ['*']` looks like "all branches", but in GitHub's [filter
pattern
syntax](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#filter-pattern-cheat-sheet)
the `*` glob does not match `/` — and `pull_request.branches` filters on
the *base* branch. So the Tests workflow silently skipped any PR whose
base branch contains a slash. Concretely: #45 is stacked on #42's
`claude/...` branch and got no Tests run at all.

Drop the filter — a bare `pull_request:` trigger covers every base
branch. (`'**'` would too, but no filter says what it means.) The
README's example workflows never had a filter, so no doc change is
needed beyond the inline comment.

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@github-actions github-actions Bot changed the base branch from claude/code-review-bug-check-3njvdx to main June 10, 2026 14:10
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