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Preserve PR description when branch push fails during PR creation #8713

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Fix: don't reset webview state until pr.create succeeds
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6 changes: 5 additions & 1 deletion webviews/common/createContextNew.ts
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Expand Up @@ -260,11 +260,15 @@ export class CreatePRContextNew {
try {
this.updateState({ creating: false });
const args: CreatePullRequestNew = this.copyParams();
vscode.setState(defaultCreateParams);
await this.postMessage({
command: 'pr.create',
args,
});
// Only clear persisted state after the create succeeds. Resetting before
// awaiting would discard the user's title/description if the create fails
// (for example when the branch push fails and needs `--force`), causing
// the description to fall back to the template on the next webview load.
vscode.setState(defaultCreateParams);
} catch (e) {
this.updateState({ createError: (typeof e === 'string') ? e : (e.message ? e.message : 'An unknown error occurred.') });
}
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