Pull Request Comment

A GitHub action for posting comments in pull requests

Usage

Basic

Always post a new comment.

on: pull_request

jobs:
  new_comment:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: dannyskoog/pull-request-comment@v1
        with:
          message: This is a new comment

Upsert comment

Use the marker input to update an existing comment. If not found - a new comment will be posted.

on: pull_request

jobs:
  upsert_comment:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: dannyskoog/pull-request-comment@v1
        with:
          message: This is a new comment
          marker: <!-- some-unique-text -->
      - run: sleep 5s
        shell: bash
      - uses: dannyskoog/pull-request-comment@v1
        with:
          message: This comment was updated
          marker: <!-- some-unique-text -->

Inputs

Name	Description	Required	Default
message	Body of the comment	✅
marker	Hidden text to look for in existing comments
token	GitHub access token to use when posting the comment		${{ github.token }}

Contributing

Build

The build steps transpiles the src/main.ts to dist/index.js which is used in a NodeJS environment. It is handled by vercel/ncc compiler.

$ npm run build