Github Review

A simple tool to help me pull down and review Github PRs.

This is geared toward reviewing NodeJS projects since that's what I'm reviewing these days. This is specifically geared toward reviewing PRs from ShellJS and its various off-shoot projects. I also use this to help review cash and my Bash-to-ShellJS translator.

Feel free to try this out for your Github projects! If you like it, drop me a line.

If you find any bugs, please see the wiki page for a guide on submitting bug reports (I'd love to get them so I know what I can fix). If you have any improvements, please open a pull request (which I'll try reviewing via this tool!) or give me a feature suggestion via Github issue. I'm more than happy to branch this off into a more general and powerful project.

Installation

$ npm install -g github-review

Usage

1. Visit your favorite Github NodeJS project and pick an open pull request
2. Copy out the pull request's URL (anything that has user/repo/pull/<num>/...)
3. Paste it on the commandline:

# Save yourself some typing, paste in whatever URL is in your browser
$ review.js https://github.com/shelljs/shx/pull/14
$ review.js https://github.com/shelljs/shx/pull/14/files # this works too
$ review.js https://github.com/shelljs/shx/pull/14#discussion_r55946766 # even this

4. Press enter, watch the magic happen, and cd into the new PR_14/ directory

Testing the master branch

Also, you can also paste in the URL of the repo itself to clone & test the master branch:

# Clone & test the master branch
$ review.js https://github.com/shelljs/shx

System Compatibility

This is written mainly in ShellJS, so this is supposed to be compatible with Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Note: you must have curl installed for this script to run. Don't like that? I'll gladly accept a PR fixing that.

If you find that this script doesn't run on your system, let me know and I'll try to fix that as well.