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Why?

The pusher extension is dead code. Merge execution moved to Runway, where the pluggable contract is runway/extension/merger — a Runway-owned interface that takes a MergeRequest off the queue rather than SubmitQueue entity.Batch values. Nothing in the tree imports submitqueue/extension/pusher any more: the only remaining references were the package's own files and the mocks target in the Makefile.

Removing it now keeps a second, divergent merge contract from drifting alongside the live one.

What?

Deletes the whole submitqueue/extension/pusher tree — the Pusher/Factory contract, the git-backed implementation, the fake, and the generated mock.

Drops ./submitqueue/extension/pusher/... from the go generate invocation in the mocks Makefile target. Left in place it would point make mocks at a path that no longer exists.

Drops the stale pusher mention from the changeset package docs, which listed it as an example of a decision/action extension resolving content through a Resolver.

Test Plan

make gazelle — no BUILD churn beyond the deleted packages
make fmt
make test — 82/82 pass
grep -rn "extension/pusher" over the tree returns nothing

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## Summary

### Why?

The `pusher` extension is dead code. Merge execution moved to Runway, where the pluggable contract is `runway/extension/merger` — a Runway-owned interface that takes a `MergeRequest` off the queue rather than SubmitQueue `entity.Batch` values. Nothing in the tree imports `submitqueue/extension/pusher` any more: the only remaining references were the package's own files and the `mocks` target in the Makefile.

Removing it now keeps a second, divergent merge contract from drifting alongside the live one.

### What?

Deletes the whole `submitqueue/extension/pusher` tree — the `Pusher`/`Factory` contract, the git-backed implementation, the fake, and the generated mock.

Drops `./submitqueue/extension/pusher/...` from the `go generate` invocation in the `mocks` Makefile target. Left in place it would point `make mocks` at a path that no longer exists.

Drops the stale `pusher` mention from the `changeset` package docs, which listed it as an example of a decision/action extension resolving content through a `Resolver`.

## Test Plan

✅ `make gazelle` — no BUILD churn beyond the deleted packages
✅ `make fmt`
✅ `make test` — 82/82 pass
✅ `grep -rn "extension/pusher"` over the tree returns nothing
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## Summary

### Why?

PR #443 disabled this workflow outright (`if: false`) when the repo moved to GitHub's native stacked PRs. That was too blunt: native stacks and hand-rolled `arh` chains coexist here today. Stacks #470, #472 and #474 are native, while #460#461#462#463#476 is a plain chain whose every member reports `stack: null`. With the workflow off, merging any PR in a hand-rolled chain leaves the children still carrying their parent's commits — precisely the broken-diff problem this workflow was written to fix.

GitHub owns the lifecycle of its own stacks: on a partial merge it rebases and retargets the surviving members itself, so the workflow must not touch those. It only needs to tell the two apart rather than give up on both.

### What?

Re-enables the job and skips only the PRs GitHub actually owns, instead of switching the whole workflow off.

A `detect_stack` helper resolves native-stack membership from `GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls/{n}`. It queries the REST API at run time rather than reading `github.event.pull_request.stack` off the webhook payload, so a PR added to a stack after the merge event was queued is still recognised. Membership survives merge — a merged member still reports its stack — which is what makes the lookup meaningful at this point in the lifecycle.

The check is applied **per child PR**, not to the merged PR. GitHub only ever rebases a stack's own members; a PR that targets a member's head branch without joining the stack is invisible to that machinery. Skipping the whole chain whenever the merged PR happened to be a stack member would therefore strand such a PR with exactly the broken diff this workflow exists to prevent. `rebase_chain` always runs; each child that is a stack member is skipped and not recursed into, while its siblings rebase normally. Membership of the merged PR is logged for context and gates nothing.

Presence is tested on the `stack` object itself rather than on `stack.number`. Probing a sub-field means a stack object arriving without that field reads as "standalone" and gets force-pushed — the unsafe direction to fail in. The number is used only for logging. An unreadable response still falls back to standalone, since the Stacks API 404s when the feature is not enabled for a repo, which is exactly when the rebase is wanted.

`cleanup_orphaned_merged_branches` still runs on every merge, including those where every child turned out to be GitHub's to rebase. This workflow therefore remains the sole owner of head-branch deletion, and native-stack head branches are reaped here too, each on the first merge after GitHub has retargeted its successors off it.

This depends on "Automatically delete head branches" being OFF, as the header has always documented — otherwise GitHub retargets children to `main` before the job runs and the non-native path silently no-ops on a green job. The setting has been turned off on the repo.

## Test Plan

✅ YAML parses; job `if` and step `env` verified after the edit.

✅ `bash -n` clean on the extracted `run:` block under bash 5.2, the version Actions runners use. Note for future edits: macOS `/bin/bash` 3.2 reports a spurious `syntax error near ';;'` on this script — it cannot parse the heredoc nested in `$( )`, so it blames a line far from the real construct.

✅ `actionlint` v1.7.7 — clean.

✅ `zizmor` v1.25.2 (`--no-online-audits`, the version CI pins) — no findings, 2 ignored and 5 suppressed, confirming the existing `.github/zizmor.yml` exceptions still cover the file.

✅ `yamlfmt` v0.16.0 `-lint` — clean.

✅ `detect_stack` exercised against live PRs in this repo:

| PR | `.stack` | Result |
| --- | --- | --- |
| #467 | stack #470, position 4/6, merged | native → skipped |
| #468 | stack #470, position 5/6, open | native → skipped |
| #404 | stack #472 | native → skipped |
| #457 | stack #475, size 1 | native → skipped |
| #443 | `null` | standalone → rebased |
| #460 | `null` | standalone → rebased |
| #999999 | HTTP 404 | warns, treated as standalone, no `set -euo pipefail` abort |

✅ The sub-field trap verified directly: a synthetic `{"stack":{"id":51488,"position":4,"size":6}}` with no `number` reads as standalone under `.stack.number // empty`, and as in-a-stack under the expression shipped here.

✅ Observed reference case — the merge of #467 (position 4 of stack #470). GitHub retargeted #468 from `preetam/stovepipe-buildsignal-outcome` to `main` and left #469 on #468's branch, confirming both that GitHub handles its own members and that a merged member retains its `stack` object.

The rebase itself can only be exercised post-merge. On the next merge of a hand-rolled chain (the runway series is the live case) watch for `=== Stack rebase complete ===` and a child retargeted with only its own commits; on a native-stack merge watch for each member child logging `skipped: belongs to native stack #N`, followed by the branch sweep. The first sweep will also reap `preetam/stovepipe-buildsignal-outcome`, which is currently orphaned — it merged after auto-delete was turned off and has no open dependents.
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## Summary

### Why?

PR #443 disabled this workflow outright (`if: false`) when the repo
moved to GitHub's native stacked PRs. That was too blunt: native stacks
and hand-rolled `arh` chains coexist here today. Stacks #470, #472 and
#474 are native, while #460#461#462#463#476 is a plain chain
whose every member reports `stack: null`. With the workflow off, merging
any PR in a hand-rolled chain leaves the children still carrying their
parent's commits — precisely the broken-diff problem this workflow was
written to fix.

GitHub owns the lifecycle of its own stacks: on a partial merge it
rebases and retargets the surviving members itself, so the workflow must
not touch those. It only needs to tell the two apart rather than give up
on both.

### What?

Re-enables the job and skips only the PRs GitHub actually owns, instead
of switching the whole workflow off.

A `detect_stack` helper resolves native-stack membership from `GET
/repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls/{n}`. It queries the REST API at run time
rather than reading `github.event.pull_request.stack` off the webhook
payload, so a PR added to a stack after the merge event was queued is
still recognised. Membership survives merge — a merged member still
reports its stack — which is what makes the lookup meaningful at this
point in the lifecycle.

The check is applied **per child PR**, not to the merged PR. GitHub only
ever rebases a stack's own members; a PR that targets a member's head
branch without joining the stack is invisible to that machinery.
Skipping the whole chain whenever the merged PR happened to be a stack
member would therefore strand such a PR with exactly the broken diff
this workflow exists to prevent. `rebase_chain` always runs; each child
that is a stack member is skipped and not recursed into, while its
siblings rebase normally. Membership of the merged PR is logged for
context and gates nothing.

Presence is tested on the `stack` object itself rather than on
`stack.number`. Probing a sub-field means a stack object arriving
without that field reads as "standalone" and gets force-pushed — the
unsafe direction to fail in. The number is used only for logging. An
unreadable response still falls back to standalone, since the Stacks API
404s when the feature is not enabled for a repo, which is exactly when
the rebase is wanted.

`cleanup_orphaned_merged_branches` still runs on every merge, including
those where every child turned out to be GitHub's to rebase. This
workflow therefore remains the sole owner of head-branch deletion, and
native-stack head branches are reaped here too, each on the first merge
after GitHub has retargeted its successors off it.

This depends on "Automatically delete head branches" being OFF, as the
header has always documented — otherwise GitHub retargets children to
`main` before the job runs and the non-native path silently no-ops on a
green job. The setting has been turned off on the repo.

## Test Plan

✅ YAML parses; job `if` and step `env` verified after the edit.

✅ `bash -n` clean on the extracted `run:` block under bash 5.2, the
version Actions runners use. Note for future edits: macOS `/bin/bash`
3.2 reports a spurious `syntax error near ';;'` on this script — it
cannot parse the heredoc nested in `$( )`, so it blames a line far from
the real construct.

✅ `actionlint` v1.7.7 — clean.

✅ `zizmor` v1.25.2 (`--no-online-audits`, the version CI pins) — no
findings, 2 ignored and 5 suppressed, confirming the existing
`.github/zizmor.yml` exceptions still cover the file.

✅ `yamlfmt` v0.16.0 `-lint` — clean.

✅ `detect_stack` exercised against live PRs in this repo:

| PR | `.stack` | Result |
| --- | --- | --- |
| #467 | stack #470, position 4/6, merged | native → skipped |
| #468 | stack #470, position 5/6, open | native → skipped |
| #404 | stack #472 | native → skipped |
| #457 | stack #475, size 1 | native → skipped |
| #443 | `null` | standalone → rebased |
| #460 | `null` | standalone → rebased |
| #999999 | HTTP 404 | warns, treated as standalone, no `set -euo
pipefail` abort |

✅ The sub-field trap verified directly: a synthetic
`{"stack":{"id":51488,"position":4,"size":6}}` with no `number` reads as
standalone under `.stack.number // empty`, and as in-a-stack under the
expression shipped here.

✅ Observed reference case — the merge of #467 (position 4 of stack
#470). GitHub retargeted #468 from
`preetam/stovepipe-buildsignal-outcome` to `main` and left #469 on
#468's branch, confirming both that GitHub handles its own members and
that a merged member retains its `stack` object.

The rebase itself can only be exercised post-merge. On the next merge of
a hand-rolled chain (the runway series is the live case) watch for `===
Stack rebase complete ===` and a child retargeted with only its own
commits; on a native-stack merge watch for each member child logging
`skipped: belongs to native stack #N`, followed by the branch sweep. The
first sweep will also reap `preetam/stovepipe-buildsignal-outcome`,
which is currently orphaned — it merged after auto-delete was turned off
and has no open dependents.
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