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Ask HN: What's the one feature you'd want in a GitHub productivity tool?

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Re: Ask HN: What's the one feature you'd want in a GitHub productivity tool?

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Post by saurik »

ianpurton wrote: post #20

I want an AI to take issues and turn them into PR's. I want the PR's to be so good and well tested that I can actually approve them and commit them to the project.

FWIW, I feel like the job of approving and committing PRs is probably easier than the job of writing them, so arguably we should automate and replace you first ;P.

Re: Ask HN: What's the one feature you'd want in a GitHub productivity tool?

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Post by jeremy_k »

A chronological list of all the commits that affected a line of code. I've often gone and looked at a line, looked at the blame for that line, and then had to traverse backwards through history to find where the change I'm interested in happened. Using the GitHub UI, this takes a considerable amount of clicks.

1) Click on a file 2) Click blame 3) Click the parent commit SHA 4) Click View File 5) Click blame

Repeat as you traverse back in history.

Re: Ask HN: What's the one feature you'd want in a GitHub productivity tool?

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Post by poetril »

I actually have a very glue and duck taped solution for this. But I'd love if there way a tool to auto expand the "Load more..." button present in PRs with lots of conversations/commits.

Everytime I refresh the page on a large PR I have to click through 10-12 "Load more" buttons before I can have the whole picture.

Re: Ask HN: What's the one feature you'd want in a GitHub productivity tool?

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Post by t1mmen »

davydm wrote: post #3

Tell me all the commits I've made for the day across all repos. Can be very helpful when attempting to capture time logs. I often work across several projects and/or several branches in a project daily.

If you’re flexible on the time tracker to use, www.timely.com tracks GitHub activity (and so much more, entirely privately).

It works great for eliminating the «what did I actually work on X days ago?» problem (that used to be the bane of my existence)

Disclaimer: I work at Timely

Re: Ask HN: What's the one feature you'd want in a GitHub productivity tool?

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Post by jaredsohn »

jeremy_k wrote: post #23

A chronological list of all the commits that affected a line of code. I've often gone and looked at a line, looked at the blame for that line, and then had to traverse backwards through history to find where the change I'm interested in happened. Using the GitHub UI, this takes a considerable amount of clicks. 1) Click on a file 2) Click blame 3) Click the parent commit SHA 4) Click View File 5) Click blame Repeat as…

Here is how you can do this via the commandline for one or more lines:

git log -L 40,50:app/models/user.rb

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