Action updating closed PR instead of opening a new one

[jedrichards]

I've recently started noticing on one of my repos that this action is updating the most recent old/closed versioning PR, instead of opening a new one. Presumably something wonky with the search query defined here?

I can manually create a new PR based on the branch that the action created, and that works fine to merge and release the packages.

[beeequeue]

I can confirm this is happening, the logs even show that the PR is closed:

"number": 11,
"title": "Version Packages",
"state": "closed",

[emmatown]

Could someone provide a reproduction? There's not much we can do without one

[beeequeue]

We have a normal setup with lerna, no custom scripts of any kind.

1. Merge a version PR.
2. Commit any changeset to the repo.
3. The merged PR's description is updated, and no new branch is created.

Nothing crazy going on, just the normal flow.

[jedrichards]

Here's an example of an action run that updates a closed release PR instead of opening a new one:

https://github.com/sketch-hq/sketch-assistant-utils/runs/589060995?check_suite_focus=true

Observe the state: closed in the result. It's confusing since I can see your search query explicitly looks for open PRs:

let searchQuery = `repo:${repo}+state:open+head:${versionBranch}+base:${branch}`;

The problem appears to be somewhat sporadic also. Is the GitHub API just occasionally crapping out and not respecting the query filter?

[emmatown]

I think filtering out PRs where the state isn't open should solve this then? Happy to accept a PR for that