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How to review a pull request in IntelliJ IDEA?

We are using git, Bitbucket, and IntelliJ IDEA. The project is mainly written in Java and Groovy.

Is there a good way to review pull requests right from IntelliJ?

Solution

  • The formal support for GitHub (or BitBucket for that matter) pull request review is still pending (issue IDEA-85079, opened in 2012). It will be implemented in the 2020.2 release (see here).

    Since 2016, it has support for GitHub PR in 2018.3, as commented here:

    This is mostly read-only mode for now - one could create a local branch from a PR or open it on GitHub to comment/close it - but this is only the first step.

    In future releases we plan to add additional functionality - ability to assign PRs IDEA-146659, merge/close them directly from IDE, comment on the PR and specific lines of code - IDEA-64794.

    But: (Sept. 2019)

    It's not at all obvious how to open the PR page. I had to look up the release notes to discover it's a double click. Discoverability of the PR tab is also poor; it isn't visible by default and there's no way to reach it from the version control tab, which is where I looked first.

    Jan. 2020: Dan Oak mentions in the comments that:

    CodeStream provides a tool to integrate GitHub PRs into IDEA.
    See Pull Request Integrations:

    CodeStream can display merged pull request comments in your editor as annotations on the current version of your

    2016:

    That leaves you with a manual process, fetching a PR, and comparing the branches:

    git fetch origin pull/1234/head:pr-1234

    For BitBucket:

    git fetch origin refs/pull-requests/1234/from:pr-1234

    (See also "How to fetch Pull Requests in BitBucket")

    Then you can compare branches in IntelliJ.