PR Workflow Automation

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Streamline pull request creation, review, and merging using GitHub CLI for faster code review cycles.

Prerequisites

-GitHub CLI (gh) installed and authenticated

Steps

Create a pull request from the current branch

Open a PR with a title and body directly from the terminal.

$ gh pr create --title 'feat: add user authentication' --body 'Implements JWT-based auth with refresh tokens'

Use --draft to create a draft PR that is not ready for review yet.

List open pull requests

View all open PRs in the repository with status checks.

$ gh pr list --state open --json number,title,author,reviewDecision --jq '.[] | "#\(.number) \(.title) [\(.reviewDecision)]"'

Check out a PR locally for review

Fetch and check out a pull request branch to test it locally.

$ gh pr checkout 42

Approve and merge a PR

Submit an approval review and merge the PR in one flow.

$ gh pr review 42 --approve && gh pr merge 42 --squash --delete-branch

Use --squash for a clean history, --merge for a merge commit, or --rebase for a linear history.

Full Script

full-script.sh

#!/bin/bash
# PR Workflow Automation
set -euo pipefail

echo "=== Open Pull Requests ==="
gh pr list --state open --limit 10

echo ""
echo "=== PR Commands ==="
echo "Create:   gh pr create --title 'title' --body 'description'"
echo "Draft:    gh pr create --draft --title 'WIP: feature'"
echo "Checkout: gh pr checkout <number>"
echo "Review:   gh pr review <number> --approve"
echo "Merge:    gh pr merge <number> --squash --delete-branch"
echo "Status:   gh pr status"
echo "Diff:     gh pr diff <number>"
echo "Checks:   gh pr checks <number>"

FAQ

Discussion

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#!/bin/bash # PR Workflow Automation set -euo pipefail echo "=== Open Pull Requests ===" gh pr list --state open --limit 10 echo "" echo "=== PR Commands ===" echo "Create: gh pr create --title 'title' --body 'description'" echo "Draft: gh pr create --draft --title 'WIP: feature'" echo "Checkout: gh pr checkout <number>" echo "Review: gh pr review <number> --approve" echo "Merge: gh pr merge <number> --squash --delete-branch" echo "Status: gh pr status" echo "Diff: gh pr diff <number>" echo "Checks: gh pr checks <number>"