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Re: GitHub Merge Queue Silently Reverted Code

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Post by ramon156 » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 6:17 AM UTC

EdwardDiego wrote: post #6

This has caused a morning of fun for our team, how do you break one of the most fundamental bits of your system? Time to look at alternatives...

Self-hosting has been wonders. I thought I needed the social part of GH (i still kind of do, I like seeing what people are working on or liking) but overall its the same experience.

Re: GitHub Merge Queue Silently Reverted Code

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Post by mazeez » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 6:27 AM UTC

ragall wrote: post #10

MarkMarine wrote: post #9

4 people spent hours putting our repo back together at my company after this. GH has been unreliable and now they are breaking the core tenant of what I expect from this service.

> core tenant tenet not tenant

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Re: GitHub Merge Queue Silently Reverted Code

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Post by minraws » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 9:09 AM UTC

Wait what? How, what? This doesn't compute

Re: GitHub Merge Queue Silently Reverted Code

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Post by classified » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 9:59 AM UTC

How long will users put up with this before they finally leave? Microslop is inventing new failure modes on a weekly basis.

Re: GitHub Merge Queue Silently Reverted Code

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Post by sidewndr46 » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 1:26 PM UTC

Github has been doing this for at least 5 years now. Merging a pull request merges whatever the latest commit on that branch is in the specific backend that handles the merge request. It does not merge what was just pushed into that branch.

Re: GitHub Merge Queue Silently Reverted Code

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Post by NelsonMinar » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 1:47 PM UTC

How did a bug like this get past their testing?

Re: GitHub Merge Queue Silently Reverted Code

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Post by philpem » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 2:21 PM UTC

NelsonMinar wrote: post #16

How did a bug like this get past their testing?

Given the push to AI/Copilot from MS I'd be impressed if they still did any testing.

Re: GitHub Merge Queue Silently Reverted Code

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Post by estimator7292 » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 3:24 PM UTC

NelsonMinar wrote: post #16

How did a bug like this get past their testing?

They're at 88% uptime this year. I don't think they have testing.

Re: GitHub Merge Queue Silently Reverted Code

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Post by tracker1 » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 4:24 PM UTC

I experienced a weird bug, where the github ci environment was checking out code that was throwing an error on build... the version tag definitely didn't have the code the error was coming from... I messed with the CI workflow yaml and finally cat'd the file in question... the error code was definitely there (2 lines repeated in the file) that was not in the repository.

I nuked the release tag and re-created it, and it started working... was just a really weird bug/experience.

Re: GitHub Merge Queue Silently Reverted Code

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Post by tracker1 » Fri, Apr 24, 2026, 4:27 PM UTC

estimator7292 wrote: post #18

NelsonMinar wrote: post #16

How did a bug like this get past their testing?

They're at 88% uptime this year. I don't think they have testing.

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