PR Butler

PR Butler answers the review comments on your pull request with commits, not promises. For every unresolved comment it makes the change on the branch, runs the tests, and drafts a reply in your tone that links the commit. You read the drafts, drop what you disagree with, and post the rest.

Usage

1. Sign in to your Git host's command-line tool, so it can read the review threads.
2. Start PR Butler with the pull request number.
3. Go through pr-replies/<number>.md: each draft shows the comment, the diff that answers it and the test result. Post the replies you keep; the commits are local until you push them.

What it produces

• One commit per comment it could answer, on the pull request's branch, named after the comment
• pr-replies/<number>.md: a reply per unresolved comment, with the commit it points to, or the reason it made no change: a question, a disagreement to settle, a change outside the pull request

Configuration

• tone (default neutral): neutral, warm or brief.
• testCommand (default: detected from the project): a change that fails the tests is dropped, and the reply says what it tried.
• skipResolved (default true): ignores threads already marked resolved.

Notes

• It never posts a reply and never pushes; both are yours.
• Read every draft before posting: a comment that refers to an earlier thread can be misread.
• Reading the threads, answering, testing and drafting are separate vloops in the package: run one alone, or fork the set.