Files changed doesn't properly reflect changes against non base branch

[JohnRDOrazio]

Creating a new issue seeing that #5545 was closed, but is not resolved.

I have a main branch with the stable, production ready code, which reflects the latest published release.

I have a development branch where all of the latest PR's for features and non-security bugfixes are merged.

When I create a new PR from VSCode against the development branch, the files changed is showing files changed in comparison to the main branch, not the development branch. Which makes it look scary, and prevents me from continuing to create the PR from VSCode.

See #5545 (comment) :

All those deleted files were already removed / refactored in the development branch. They shouldn't be showing in a PR against the development branch.

[JohnRDOrazio]

I found a workaround for now, if I switch the base to main, then switch the base back to development, the Files changed then show correctly. They just weren't picked up right away, as they should be (since the base was automatically detected as development).

[JohnRDOrazio]

Another thing I noticed, is that after Merging the PR and deleting both local and remote branches, I am automatically brought back to the main branch instead of the development branch. Perhaps it would make more sense to checkout the base branch for the merge (in this case, development) rather than the main branch? That way the user / developer is brought back to where he started from when the feature branch was first created.