[Feature Request] Command to create comments on pull requests

[nchen-lv]

Not sure if this is possible, but it would be helpful to be able to add/create new comments to existing pull requests. This would work hand in hand w/ Jenkins pull request builder plugin which uses PR comments as trigger phrases for merge/build.

[mislav]

This is not on our roadmap yet, but shouldn't be hard to implement once we finally get to it. I was thinking of implementing a low-level api command that would help you make manual API requests to perform operations not supported by hub. Such a command could make scripting to create a pull request comment very easy.

[stensson]

@mislav : Just checking here, are there still no plans to add this feature?

I would love to have a command like

hub comment <issue-no/PR-no> -m "comment content"

for a few use cases.

I primarily want this in order to add a reminder comment with a task list at the bottom of a PR with a lot of commits. For example to remind the user to review the code and docs before merging a huge release branch with the past 4 weeks of commits into master. If this reminder is only in the PR description at the top, it is likely to be missed.

Another use for it could be for an automated build/test system to add some details about the build into a comment on the PR.

If I remember the Github v3 API correctly, issues and PRs are the "same thing", which means this command could be used to comment both issues and PRs alike.

[mislav]

There is a PR open to add a hub comment command #1465

I still haven't had time to properly review it and reach a decision about whether I like its API or do I imagine it to be different.

[sebszocinski]

+1 on this, I installed this planning to do just this and was bummed when I found out it's not a feature

[mislav]

After some consideration, I have decided that—for now—this is best implemented in user scripts, rather than maintained in hub core. Now that there is a new hub api command, I will close this feature request and leave implementing this as an exercise to the reader. https://github.com/github/hub/releases/tag/v2.8.3 #2016

For example, see the resolution in #623 (comment)

Thank you for suggesting!