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Problem

With Follow change request templates enabled, committed text templates such as .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.TXT are ignored and description generation receives no template. GitHub supports both Markdown and text pull request templates with case-insensitive filenames in its documented template locations.

Change

Recognize .txt templates alongside .md in the existing single-file and directory locations. Compare single-file names without case, preferring the existing exact spelling and skipping empty candidates. Read .github/, the repository root and docs/ separately in priority order, stopping after a match. If one location listing exceeds the cap, query its known exact filenames before moving on. Read template-directory candidates separately too; unrelated lower-priority metadata cannot hide an earlier template. Keep committed-blob reads, regular-file filtering, byte limits and mixed-template ambiguity handling.

This addresses the matching-filename findings from Codex and CodeRabbit, and Codex's follow-up about the listing cap.

Scope and approval

This is a focused correction to the existing GitHub template reader under CONTRIBUTING.md's obvious-bug exception. No new setting, default, dependency, contract, diagnostic suppression or UI change. All-state issue/PR and discussion searches found no equivalent fix. Related #12392, #18209 and #19710 add GitLab/Azure support and preserve GitHub's existing Markdown-only paths.

Verification

  • Initial extension regressions: 10 fail before text support, with 16 passing controls. Follow-up casing regressions: 10 fail before case-insensitive discovery, with 26 passing controls. The PR-creation integration also fails because no template reaches generatePrContent. The four listing-cap regressions then fail on the published case-insensitive implementation while 36 controls pass. A separate real-Git metadata probe measures 147,576 bytes for the combined listing, including 147,490 unrelated bytes from docs/, versus 86 bytes for the valid .github/ template.
  • vp test run apps/server/src/sourceControl/gitHubChangeRequestTemplate.test.ts --maxWorkers=1: 40 passed in 4.65 seconds. Real temporary Git repositories cover uppercase/mixed-case text names in all three locations, Markdown case variants, a subdirectory cwd, 600 unrelated nested documents, four regressions for 600 direct documents and exact/case-variant templates, mixed-template ambiguity, base-tree selection, symlink exclusion and truncation.
  • vp test run apps/server/src/git/GitManager.test.ts --maxWorkers=1 -t 'creates PR with a text template when one does not already exist': 1 passed, 169 unrelated tests skipped, in 8.80 seconds. The committed PuLl_ReQuEsT_TeMpLaTe.TXT reaches description generation through the real reader. Uses a real local repository and bare remote; remote PR transport and text generation use the existing test doubles.
  • Changed-file lint/format with one thread and scoped tsc-rs --noEmit selecting the three changed files passed. Typecheck emitted existing Effect suggestions in unchanged dependencies, with no errors.
  • Fallow 3.33.1 with one thread: medium risk for the cumulative change; the unchanged provider consumer was checked for compatibility. Its byte-matching isolated snapshot includes all three changed files, the provider and GitManager; excludes real history and complete dependency graphs. Validation accepted one current signal and rejected none. This validates the anchor/currentness, not the correctness of the review prose.
  • Independent GPT Daybreak Blue review via Codex: round 3 approved, no actionable findings.

No live GitHub PR-generation session or browser was exercised. Discovery can make additional bounded Git calls when earlier locations contain no usable template. If a location exceeds its discovery cap, only its known exact spellings are available from the targeted fallback; unknown case variants remain subject to the cap.

Implemented with GPT-6.1 Sol via the Codex harness in T3 Code; reviewed with GPT Daybreak Blue via the Codex harness.

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Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — This is a focused and well-tested fix to GitHub pull-request template discovery, with no schema, deployment, security, billing, or default-setting impact. Unresolved findings identify concrete risks involving case-insensitive matching and listing-size fallback behavior, warranting human review.

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P2 Badge Match text template filenames case-insensitively

When a repository commits .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.TXT (or any mixed-case stem/extension), GitHub accepts it because pull request template filenames are case-insensitive, but this exact-path list only asks ls-tree for two stem casings with lowercase .txt; the tree entry is therefore absent and template detection silently returns none. List the containing locations and compare single-file names case-insensitively, as the directory-template regex already does.

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Template detection now recognizes .md and .txt files across configured locations. It handles path casing, searches from nested repository directories, and lists candidate directories without recursive traversal.

Changes: Pull-request template detection

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Expand template discovery
packages/source-control-github/src/server/gitHubChangeRequestTemplate.ts, apps/server/src/sourceControl/gitHubChangeRequestTemplate.test.ts, apps/server/src/git/GitManager.test.ts
Configured paths now include .txt candidates. Direct path matching is case-insensitive and prioritizes exact-case matches. Directory matching accepts immediate .md and .txt files. Tests cover casing, nested paths, unrelated nested documents, ambiguous matches, and a mixed-case .TXT fixture.

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Change: Bug fix

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Committed text and mixed-case pull-request templates are now discoverable, with ambiguous directory choices still rejected. The supplied implementation and test coverage reveal no material issue blocking merge.

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- Line 14: Update the single-file pull-request template path matching and tree
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Updated in 496e0de: single-file template discovery now accepts uppercase and mixed-case filenames, with direct-level Git listings. The 36 reader tests and the selected PR-creation integration pass with one worker. Both reported filename-matching findings are addressed.

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Comment on lines 151 to 152
args: ["ls-tree", "-z", "--full-tree", treeish, "--", ...TREE_PATHS],
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P2 Badge Preserve exact templates before broad fallback discovery

With an exact .github/pull_request_template.md and 600 direct docs/<long-name>.md files (the same scale as the new nested-doc test), Git 2.43.0 produces more than 100 KB from this combined command; stdoutTruncated then makes detect return none, although the previous exact-path listing found the template. The git ls-tree documentation describes -r as “Recurse into sub-trees,” so removing it excludes nested descendants but still aggregates every direct child of all selected levels. Query exact paths before fallback discovery, or query priority levels separately and stop after a match, so unrelated lower-priority files cannot suppress a valid template.

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Updated in dcf305f to address the listing-cap finding. Singleton locations are read in priority order, with targeted exact-name fallback when a location listing truncates. Four regressions with 600 direct documents now pass, alongside 36 reader controls and the selected PR-creation integration, all with one worker. Independent Daybreak Blue round 3 approved the cumulative change.

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