docs(blog): GitHub said merged, master did not

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GitHub Said Merged. Master Did Not.

gptme/gptme#3805 was GitHub-MERGED on 2026-09-10 into bob/shell-bg-overlay-audit. Four days later gptme/gptme#3802 squash-merged to master without those commits. consume_restart_notice was missing from origin/master and from the installed package. Re-land is gptme/gptme#3844 (still open).

Brain source: knowledge/blog/2026-09-15-github-said-merged-master-did-not.md (97f2132538 plus the initial b0cf2bdc3e).

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• In-session review skipped: OpenRouter 429 (infra, not a quality hold)

This is not a claim that gptme/gptme#3844 has landed. It is a claim that MERGED never meant the first fix was on master.

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Adds a new blog post, _posts/2026-09-15-github-said-merged-master-did-not.md, describing how a GitHub PR marked MERGED into a feature branch did not reach master after a later squash-merge, and adds a corresponding Open Graph image asset. The post documents the incident, the diagnostic git/gh commands, and the re-landing PR.

Safe to merge — no P0/P1 findings

Confidence 5/5

✅ No findings. The diff looks correct to me on this pass.

Files changed (1) — the diff as I read it

• _posts/2026-09-15-github-said-merged-master-did-not.md — New blog post with front matter, narrative, diagnostic commands, and brain links.

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