gh pr create --web now always overwrites autofilled content #11277
Description
Describe the bug
gh pr create --web now always generates autofilled content; previously, the contents of .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md would be populated. It looks like the behaviour now defaults to --fill, even though I don't provide that flag.
Affected version
This was introduced in #10547 (fixes #10527) and released in v2.75.0.
Steps to reproduce the behavior
- Make sure the repository has a non-empty
.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md - On a topic branch, create and push a few commits
- Run
gh pr create --web
Expected vs actual behavior
Actual: the title is prefilled with the branch name, and the body is a list of commit titles.
The previous (and expected) behaviour was to leave the title empty (I think...) and have the body pre-populated with the contents of .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md.
Logs
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$ GH_DEBUG=api gh pr create --web
[git remote -v]
[git config --get-regexp ^remote\..*\.gh-resolved$]
* Request at 2025-07-11 10:12:13.294054503 -0700 PDT m=+0.036090788
* Request to https://api.github.com/graphql
> POST /graphql HTTP/1.1
> Host: api.github.com
> Accept: application/vnd.github.merge-info-preview+json, application/vnd.github.nebula-preview
> Authorization: token ████████████████████
> Content-Length: 392
> Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
> Graphql-Features: merge_queue
> Time-Zone: America/Vancouver
> User-Agent: GitHub CLI 2.75.0
GraphQL query:
fragment repo on Repository {
id
name
owner { login }
viewerPermission
defaultBranchRef {
name
}
isPrivate
}
query RepositoryNetwork {
viewer { login }
repo_000: repository(owner: "myorg", name: "myrepo") {
...repo
parent {
...repo
}
}
}
GraphQL variables: null
< HTTP/2.0 200 OK
< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
< Access-Control-Expose-Headers: ETag, Link, Location, Retry-After, X-GitHub-OTP, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Used, X-RateLimit-Resource, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes, X-Poll-Interval, X-GitHub-Media-Type, X-GitHub-SSO, X-GitHub-Request-Id, Deprecation, Sunset
< Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'none'
< Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
< Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 17:12:15 GMT
< Referrer-Policy: origin-when-cross-origin, strict-origin-when-cross-origin
< Server: github.com
< Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload
< Vary: Accept-Encoding, Accept, X-Requested-With
< X-Accepted-Oauth-Scopes: repo
< X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
< X-Frame-Options: deny
< X-Github-Media-Type: github.v4; param=merge-info-preview.nebula-preview; format=json
< X-Github-Request-Id: CC7C:289371:4546EF1:8BFE0B0:687145EE
< X-Oauth-Client-Id: 178c6fc778ccc68e1d6a
< X-Oauth-Scopes: admin:enterprise, admin:org, admin:org_hook, admin:public_key, gist, project, repo
< X-Ratelimit-Limit: 5000
< X-Ratelimit-Remaining: 4998
< X-Ratelimit-Reset: 1752257518
< X-Ratelimit-Resource: graphql
< X-Ratelimit-Used: 2
< X-Xss-Protection: 0
{
"data": {
"viewer": {
"login": "bewuethr"
},
"repo_000": {
"id": "someID=",
"name": "myrepo",
"owner": {
"login": "myorg"
},
"viewerPermission": "ADMIN",
"defaultBranchRef": {
"name": "main"
},
"isPrivate": true,
"parent": null
}
}
}
* Request took 522.365894ms
[git status --porcelain]
[git symbolic-ref --quiet HEAD]
[git config --get-regexp ^branch\.topic-branch\.(remote|merge|pushremote|gh-merge-base)$]
[git rev-parse --symbolic-full-name fix-annotation@{push}]
[git show-ref --verify -- HEAD refs/remotes/origin/topic-branch]
[git -c log.ShowSignature=false log --pretty=format:%H%x00%s%x00%b%x00 --cherry origin/main...topic-branch]
Opening https://github.com/myorg/myrepo/compare/main...topic-branch in your browser.
Opening in existing browser session.