Can't remove WIP from PR title

[sebastian-sauer]

Description

When creating a PR in WIP state it is not possible (1.21.9) to remove the WIP: prefix from title.

Steps to reproduce:

• Create a repo / or use an existing one without CODEOWNERs files
• Create a PR with WIP: Prefix in title
• Open the PR and try to remove the WIP Prefix

https://try.gitea.io/sebastian-sauer/test-wip-bug/pulls/1

Log output:

2024/03/22 09:57:56 ...rs/web/repo/issue.go:2163:UpdateIssueTitle() [E] ChangeTitle: exit status 128 - fatal: ambiguous argument '': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
 - fatal: ambiguous argument '': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'

Gitea Version

1.21.9

Can you reproduce the bug on the Gitea demo site?

Yes

Log Gist

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Screenshots

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Git Version

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Operating System

No response

How are you running Gitea?

Binary from download site

Database

None

[sebastian-sauer]

Unfortunately this breaks all WIP PRs as there is no chance to remove the WIP and merge it

[wxiaoguang]

Yup, it is broken (for unknown reason). I will take a look.

---

Update: lunny said he is working on it.

[KarenArzumanyan]

This stopped our development process. We have serious pull requests with WIP, which we now cannot remove and merge.
Please release the fix as quickly as possible.

How can we remove WIP in version 1.21.9 now while we wait for a fix?
Maybe there is a flag in the database?

[lunny]

#29999 will fix this.

[KarenArzumanyan]

#29999 will fix this.

Yes. Thank you. I have seen that.
But I need a release build to update.
Until it is released, I need to somehow solve the problem in the installed 1.21.9.
PS: Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS + MySQL 8.0.36

[silverwind]

#29999 will fix this.

Yes. Thank you. I have seen that. But I need a release build to update. Until it is released, I need to somehow solve the problem in the installed 1.21.9. PS: Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS + MySQL 8.0.36

You can use 1.21 nightly after that PR is merged and backported.

[wxiaoguang]

If you could build your own binary, here is a workaround patch (for both 1.22 and 1.21)

If there is any difficulty, I could also help to build a binary with it (please provide your environment/OS/database requirement, for example: linux amd64 + mysql)

(expand here to see the quick patch, only 2 lines)

diff --git a/services/issue/issue.go b/services/issue/issue.go
index 81fa980b6b..0afae0c7ff 100644
--- a/services/issue/issue.go
+++ b/services/issue/issue.go
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ func ChangeTitle(ctx context.Context, issue *issues_model.Issue, doer *user_mode
                        var err error
                        reviewNotifers, err = PullRequestCodeOwnersReview(ctx, issue, issue.PullRequest)
                        if err != nil {
-                               return err
+                               _ = err
                        }
                }
                return nil
diff --git a/services/pull/pull.go b/services/pull/pull.go
index 756e542c4d..b3ae63abb1 100644
--- a/services/pull/pull.go
+++ b/services/pull/pull.go
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ func NewPullRequest(ctx context.Context, repo *repo_model.Repository, issue *iss
                if !pr.IsWorkInProgress(ctx) {
                        reviewNotifers, err = issue_service.PullRequestCodeOwnersReview(ctx, issue, pr)
                        if err != nil {
-                               return err
+                               _ = err
                        }
                }
                return nil

[wxiaoguang]

How can we remove WIP in version 1.21.9 now while we wait for a fix?
Maybe there is a flag in the database?

The trick is issue table's name column. Just remove the WIP: from the "name" (aka title), then the PR becomes a normal PR.

---

And thanks to Gr3q, there is an API workaround: #29999 (comment)

[KarenArzumanyan]

The trick is issue table's name column. Just remove the WIP: from the "name" (aka title), then the PR becomes a normal PR.

Thank you! This is what I needed.