# GitHub Copilot: Incident with Actions

> GitHub Copilot status incident “Incident with Actions” on 2025-01-02: impact minor (vendor’s label), 2.2 h, 1 update(s). Archived by Rewindex.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/6ddp6v8g5t72
Last updated: 2025-01-03T00:19:00Z

- Impact (vendor’s label): minor
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2025-01-02 22:09 UTC · Resolved: 2025-01-03 00:19 UTC · Duration: 2.2 h
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/6ddp6v8g5t72](https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/6ddp6v8g5t72)
- [Company: GitHub Copilot](https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **resolved** 2025-01-03 00:19 UTC: On January 2, 2025 between 16:00:00 and 22:27:30 UTC, a bug in feature-flagged code that cleans up Pull Requests after they are closed or merged incorrectly cleared the merge commit SHA for ~139,000 pull requests. During the incident, Actions workflows triggered by the on: pull\_request trigger for the closed type were not queued successfully because of these missing merge commit SHAs. Approximately 45,000 repositories experienced these missing workflow triggers in either of two possible scenarios: pull requests which were closed, but not merged; and pull requests which were merged. Impact was mitigated after rolling back the aforementioned feature flag. Merged pull requests that were affected have had their merge commit SHAs restored. Closed pull requests have not had their merge commit SHA restored; however, customers can re-open and close them again to recalculate this SHA. We are investigating methods to improve detection of these kinds of errors in the future.

_From the vendor’s published history: only the final update text is available for incidents before Rewindex began polling this page._

## Cite this

Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by GitHub Copilot, started 2025-01-02 22:09 UTC, resolved after 2.2 h, 1 update(s).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/6ddp6v8g5t72
- Citation: GitHub Copilot, “Incident with Actions” (2025-01-02 22:09 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/6ddp6v8g5t72 (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[GitHub Copilot: Incident with Actions (2025-01-02)](https://rewindex.com/company/github-copilot/incidents/6ddp6v8g5t72)`


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