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github-comment

This is a command line tool for posting comments to GitHub pull requests.

Building

This tool uses the Swift package manager.

To build the tool, run:

swift build

To generate an Xcode project, run:

swift package generate-xcodeproj

Usage

All features of this tool will require that you have a GitHub API token with either public_repo or private_repo access, depending on the visibility of the repositories you're interacting with.

Parameters

All commands
--repo=...                 The repo to which comments should be made.
                           Example: material-components/material-components-ios
--github_token=...         A GitHub token with either public_repo or private_repo scope.
--pull_request_number=...  The number of the pull request to which comments should be made.
                           Example: 1234
--identifier=...           A unique identifier that is used when deleting comments.
                           Example: clang-format

Posting comments
--comment_body=...         A path to a file containing the body of the comment to be posted.

Deleting comments
--delete                   Indicates that a comment with the given identifier should be deleted.

Diff comments
--commit=...               The most recent commit on the pull request.
--diff=...                 A path to a file containing the suggested diff based from the most
                           recent commit.

To post a comment to a public pull request

This will post a comment as the user associated with the github_token.

swift run github-comment \
  --repo="$REPO" \
  --github_token="$GITHUB_API_TOKEN" \
  --pull_request_number="$PULL_REQUEST_NUMBER" \
  --identifier="$UNIQUE_COMMENT_IDENTIFIER" \
  --comment_body="$COMMENT_FILE"

To delete a comment from a public pull request

This will delete a comment with the given iidentifier made by the user associated with the github_token.

swift run github-comment \
  --repo="$REPO" \
  --github_token="$GITHUB_API_TOKEN" \
  --pull_request_number="$PULL_REQUEST_NUMBER" \
  --identifier="$UNIQUE_COMMENT_IDENTIFIER" \
  --delete

To post a suggested diff as line-by-line comments

This will post a series of in-line comments to the pull request's diff with the suggested changes. Each comment will consist of the contents of comment_body plus the diff hunk for the affected lines.

This command requires that you make changes to the pull request's most recent commit and generate a diff with zero context lines. Once you've made the desired changes to the pull request's code — e.g. by running clang-format — you can generate a zero-context diff like so:

git --no-pager diff -U0 > "$DIFF_FILE"

You can then suggest this diff as line-by-line comments to the pull request like so:

swift run github-comment \
  --repo="$REPO" \
  --github_token="$GITHUB_API_TOKEN" \
  --pull_request_number="$PULL_REQUEST_NUMBER" \
  --identifier="$UNIQUE_COMMENT_IDENTIFIER" \
  --comment_body="$COMMENT_TMP_FILE" \
  --commit="$PULL_REQUEST_COMMIT" \
  --diff="$DIFF_FILE"