Cannot open a closed PR

[bpasero]

This may be a design limitation or cannot be supported, but it would be great if I could open a closed PR and still interact with it. I can do that on Github.com and still add comments and do code review.

Today when you open a closed PR by pressing . on github VSCode opens but not the PR.

[alexr00]

Duplicate of #4613. You can restore the branch to work around this.

[bpasero]

In this case I am not sure if the branch was deleted and I am also not sure if I can restore a branch that I did not create 🤔

[alexr00]

Hmm, if the branch is not deleted then maybe you have GHPR configured to not show the PR for closed PRs. Do you have "githubPullRequests.useReviewMode": "auto"? That should get you the behavior you want.

[bpasero]

This is mainly pressing "." on a github.dev

[alexr00]

The default value of "githubPullRequests.useReviewMode" is auto, but if you have setting sync turned on then you may have lost it.

[bpasero]

Interesting, I had this configured, removed it now:

"githubPullRequests.useReviewMode": {
    "merged": false,
    "closed": false
}

[bpasero]

Wow that was really it, thanks!

[alexr00]

auto came later to resolve exactly this issue. Glad it worked!