How to reopen a pull-request after a force-push?

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How to reopen a pull-request after a force-push?

Precodinitions

• You need the rights to reopen pull requests on the repository.
• The pull request hasn't been merged, just closed.

Instructions

1. Write down the current commit hash of your PR-branch git log --oneline -1 <PR-BRANCH>
2. Write down the latest commit hash on github before the PR has been closed.
3. git push -f origin <GITHUB-HASH-FROM-STEP-2>:<PR-BRANCH>
4. Reopen the PR.
5. git push -f origin <HASH-FROM-STEP-1>:<PR-BRANCH>

Example

You've a PR branch my-feature currently at 1234567. Looking at the the PRs page, we see that the PR was closed when my-feature pointed at 0abcdef.

• git push -f origin 0abcdef:my-feature #pushing the old commit the PR has been closed with
• Reopen the PR.
• git push -f origin 1234567:my-feature #pushing the latest commit

Very helpful! Thank you!

Thanks! I appreciate github but I'm adding this to my list of Github Annoyances. :)

I was getting error in the steps above. I was able to resolve it using github by following below steps

1. Got to <code>
2. In Branch drop down list , select your closed branch. Example : <bug-id>.<base-branch>
3. Then click on New pull request
4. Under base drop down select the <base-branch> where you want to commit your code and then you are good to go.

Thanks @robertpainsi. It saved my day.

Awesome!

In my case steps 1 and 2 both had the same sha, so this didn't work.

I fixed that by:

1. creating a tiny change and pushing a new commit to the closed PR branch
2. reopening PR
3. force pushing commit from step 2 (the last sha before PR was closed)

That did the trick. Thank you for that idea, @robertpainsi!

@mlatysh1: Sorry for the very late response. In your image it states

…no longer has any new commits. Pushing new commits will allow the pull request to be re-opened.

Please try @stas00 instructions and let me know if it works.

worked for me. thank you so much!

very helpful and easy to find. thank you!

Thank you so much, you saved my day!

When you do a soft reset in order to squash commits, then forget to commit and force push the branch, it closes the PR with this error. Thank you for this, as with everyone else here, I'll chime in that this saved the day.

Amazing 🎉

Thanks your sharing!

Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for the tip!

Thanks master.

Thank you!!

Thank youuuu!

Thanks!

Thank you so much!

thx! life saver!

👍 👍 👍

Thanks alot!

Thanks a lot. This saved my day.

Thanks a lot. This was so helpful.

Brilliant! Thanks!

How come that devs at github fucked up so hard, so we have to push/pull forth and back just to make PR working?

Thank you very much !!!!

Thanks a lot !!!

This issue essentially is due to your PR and your origin branches having mismatching histories (caused by a force push after that PR closed). If your PR has multiple commits, you may need to reset the entire branch. For example

If your PR commit history is:

sha-0123 <- head
sha-1234
sha-2345

But your origin branch history is

sha-3210 <- head
sha-4321
sha-5432

You need to do reset your origin head to sha-0123, then force push your new history head to sha-3210:

# if you don't have commit `sha-0123`;
git fetch sha-0123
git co FEATURE-BRANCH
git reset sha-0123 --hard
git push --force
# **You should be able to reopen your PR at this point**
# reset to `sha-3210` on the same branch
git reset sha-3210 --hard
git push --force

Thanks a lot !