ghcomment

A simple CLI tool for commenting on GitHub PRs.

Reasoning

Most tools out there will just post a new comment to a GitHub PR but in heavily developed, long living PRs or when the comments are large, lots of these comments can become a burden to read the PR and also to find out which comments are still relevant and which are now old and outdated.

The main feature ghcomment was created for is that it always updates an existing comment, if one already exists previously instead of creating a new one.

Usage

Usage of ghcomment:

  -comment string
        A PR Comment
  -pr int
        A Pull Request number
  -repo string
        A GitHub repository on the format <org>/<repository>, or the local git repo if empty
  -signkey string
        A key used to create the signature
  -token string
        A github token

SignKey

By using the -signkey flag, ghcomment can keep track of several different comments at the same time. The sign key can be any string which is hashed and posted along with the comment. When ghcomment runs with a sign key, it will look for a comment in the PR with a hash of that key and if it exist, it updates it instead of creating a new one