Cannot modify PR from fork using . interface

Similar to #2557 but that one sounds like a feature request, while mine is more like a bug report. I first submitted this to GitHub Help Desk but after a month or so of silence, they asked me to open issue here.

• Extension version: (Not sure what this is)
• VSCode Version: (Not sure how to check)
• OS: Windows 10

Steps to Reproduce:

I tried this . trick to try to fix someone else’s PR from a fork to a repo I help maintain, but the commit failed with permission error. That wasted 30 minutes of my time, when I could have done it locally via normal git commands.

Reproduction Steps

1. Go to an active PR on a repo you have write access to, and the maintainer is allowed to push commits to it.
2. Click on the link that takes you to the PR branch on the author’s fork.
3. Use the magical . key to pop up VS Code interface.
4. Do some edits across several files on that branch.
5. Attempt to commit the changes. See errors about unable to commit due to permission issues.
6. Abandon ship.

[eamodio]

Yeah, unfortunately there is a current issue with the GitHub apis for this scenario which is blocking us from being able to commit properly. We are currently switching to use a new set of GitHub apis for committing (via GraphQL) which should resolve this issue.

Additionally, just know for the future you can export a Git patch file from github.dev:

Which you can then import and apply locally using git apply <patch-filename>.

[alexr00]

Thanks for the details @eamodio!

Closing as upstream.