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This is a weird niche feature that I'm guessing 99% of GitHub users have never seen Certainly almost every comment on hacker news hasn't understood the change
by shawabawa3 4y ago
This is a weird niche feature that I'm guessing 99% of GitHub users have never seen
Certainly almost every comment on hacker news hasn't understood the change
You can make comments directly on commit objects in GitHub, almost nobody ever does this. You used to see these comments appear PRs (but couldn't reply or resolve them) but now you don't. Nothing has changed with actual PR comments, or code comments, or anything that most people actually use
- WorldMaker 4y agoAlso, it's a sort of "legacy" feature. Earlier versions of the PR UX made it tough to review commit at a time instead of just the Full PR Diff Firehose. (Now you can pull changes apart into commits or "updates" and several things between directly in the PR interface.) Commit comments and those automatically floating into relevant PRs was basically the old UX flow workaround to that. It was slightly less of a niche feature then. Now the PR UX supports those use cases more directly and there's much fewer reasons to use commit comments.