Pull Request Overview

Opened on October 20, 2026
Status Merged
Commit count 1 with first commit October 20, 2026

Total Delta

13 Total Diff Delta

Open Days

Open 16 weekdays

Test Delta

0 Diff Delta in Test Files

Breakdown by Phase

How long has this pull request spent in each phase of its lifecycle?

Fraction of total time	Business days	Phase
N/A	0.2 days	Issue creation to work beginning
	0.1 days	Authoring 1 commit before pull request opened for review
	0.1 days	Awaiting first review
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Total time for pull request 0.2 business days from first commit authored to merge
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Keep patches in stable blocks during bumps

Avoid leaving a redundant stable block that prevents the version bump PR from being created.

Fixes #24306

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Codex with GPT 6 Astra at Extra High effort, with local review and testing.

This work implements Autobump patch removal from stable block leaves the formula in a broken style (closed)

`brew doctor` output

N/A

Verification

[x] I ran brew update twice and am still able to reproduce my issue.
[x] I have supplied my brew doctor output above and it seems unrelated to my issue.
[x] This issue's title and/or description do not reference a single formula e.g. brew install wget. If they do, open an issue at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/new/choose instead.
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`brew config` output

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What were you trying to do (and why)?

The autobump CI ran into a formula with patches in the stable block, removed them and then couldn't create the PR because it left a stable block with only a URL and shasum.

What happened (include all command output)?

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/actions/runs/39371747837/job/118460942682#step:6:28631

What did you expect to happen?

I expected autobump to create a PR that failed the style check, or kept the patches. Since knowing about the update is more important then having the patches cleaned up.

Step-by-step reproduction instructions (running `brew` commands)

brew bump --open-pr swctl

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Keep patches in stable blocks during bumps #24307