Describe the bug
Found by @williammartin.
gh pr edit --add-assignee drops any current assignees on the issue. Likely only a problem on GitHub.com and not on GHES due to Actor assignee changes around making Copilot assignable.
Affected version
gh version 2.74.0 (2025-05-29)
https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/tag/v2.74.0
Steps to reproduce the behavior
- Have issue with
foo assigned.
gh pr edit 1234 --add-assignee bar
foo gets unassigned and bar gets assigned.
Expected vs actual behavior
Current assignees must be preserved.