submit marks existing draft PRs ready for review without --open, firing review requests
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Descrizione
## Environment
- gh 2.96.0 (2026-07-02), gh-stack **v0.0.4**, git 2.46.1, macOS 26.6
## Summary
`gh stack submit --auto` marked two already-open draft PRs as ready for review, which fired review requests to five CODEOWNERS. I did not pass `--open`.
The help text is explicit that this should not happen:
> New PRs are created as drafts by default. Use `--open` to mark them as ready for review.
## Repro
```
gh stack submit --auto # creates PR A and PR B as drafts
gh pr view A --json isDraft # => true, as documented
# ... make no change to the branches ...
gh stack submit --auto # second run, still no --open
gh pr view A --json isDraft # => false
```
Second run's output, which gives no indication it changed draft state:
```
Checking stack state...
Pushing to origin...
PR #A for branch-a is up to date
PR #B for branch-b is up to date
✓ Stack updated on GitHub with 2 PRs
✓ Pushed and synced 2 branches
```
The PR timeline confirms it:
```
ready_for_review by=
review_requested by= x5
```
Those timestamps match the second `submit` to the second. I made no other change in between, and did not touch the web UI.
## Why it matters
Marking a PR ready is not a local operation. It notifies every CODEOWNER, and on a repo with required reviewers it moves the PR into other people's queues. Doing it on an update pass, from a flag whose documented meaning is "use auto-generated titles without prompting", is surprising in a way that cannot be undone: `gh pr ready --undo` restores draft state but the notifications have already gone out.
It also makes `submit` unusable as an idempotent "sync my stack" command, which is what its output implies it is when everything is already up to date.
## Expected
`submit` should only change draft state when `--open` is passed. If the current behaviour is deliberate for update passes, the help text should say so, and the output should name the change instead of printing `is up to date`.
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Direzione di ricerca
Inizia eseguendo la riproduzione segnalata in due passaggi con `gh stack submit --auto` e ispeziona il percorso di aggiornamento del comando `submit`, soprattutto il punto in cui vengono gestite le pull request esistenti. Confronta quel percorso con il comportamento di `--open` e verificalo con `gh pr view A --json isDraft`; il lavoro è completato quando gli invii ripetuti lasciano invariati i draft esistenti, a meno che non venga passato `--open`, e i test coprono la regressione.
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Valutazione
- Stack tecnologico
- github, go
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- api, cli
- Tipo di issue
- Bug
- Difficoltà
- 3/5
- Tempo stimato
- 1-2 giorni
- Stato di attività
- Attiva
- Chiarezza
- Abbastanza chiara
- Idoneità per principianti
- 58/100