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Discarding...

Error message

Discarding...

What it means

This is not a failure but a cancellation signal: in the interactive comment-create flow, ConfirmSubmitSurvey() returned false (user answered 'no' to submit), so Commentable.Submit aborts with errors.New("Discarding..."). Callers typically detect this string or the user-cancel path to exit quietly.

Source

Thrown at pkg/cmd/pr/shared/commentable.go:179

		var err error
		if opts.Interactive {
			body, err = opts.InteractiveEditSurvey("")
		} else {
			body, err = opts.EditSurvey("")
		}
		if err != nil {
			return err
		}
		opts.Body = body
	}

	if opts.Interactive {
		cont, err := opts.ConfirmSubmitSurvey()
		if err != nil {
			return err
		}
		if !cont {
			return errors.New("Discarding...")
		}
	}

	httpClient, err := opts.HttpClient()
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	apiClient := api.NewClientFromHTTP(httpClient)
	params := api.CommentCreateInput{Body: opts.Body, SubjectId: commentable.Identifier()}
	url, err := api.CommentCreate(apiClient, opts.Host, params)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	if !opts.Quiet {
		fmt.Fprintln(opts.IO.Out, url)
	}

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Solutions

1. If the comment should be posted, answer yes at the confirmation (or run non-interactively with --body)
2. In wrappers, treat this message as a normal user cancellation: exit 0-style handling rather than retry
3. Avoid interactive mode in automation: pass --body and --edit-last flags directly

Example fix

# before (interactive, user declines)
gh pr comment 3   # -> error: Discarding...
# after
gh pr comment 3 --body "automated note"

if [ ! -t 0 ]; then gh pr comment $N --body "$BODY"; else gh pr comment $N; fi

Treat errors whose message is exactly 'Discarding...' as user cancellation: log at info level and exit 0; all other errors propagate.

When it happens

Trigger: `gh pr comment <n>` interactive flow where the user declines the final 'Submit?' confirmation; aborting with ESC/Ctrl-C at the confirm prompt.

Common situations: Users opening the comment flow to preview then backing out; scripts wrapping interactive gh sessions.

Related errors

• timed out while waiting for the codespace to start
• no comments found for current user
• unable to confirm: %w
• could not prompt: %w
• no git remotes

AI-assisted analysis of cli/cli@0eeec0b92e (2026-08-15). Data as JSON: /api/errors/410b57dcf9193977. Report an issue: GitHub.