GitHub New pull request overview page in public preview

On a lengthy drag request, checking what’s blocking frequently method scrolling former dozens of comments and timeline events fair to attain the merge box. And formerly you’re there, you motionless need to activity out what to do next. As group need to assessment additional and additional drag requests, period spent scrolling adds up. So we’ve begun to rethink the complete experience, commencement alongside addressing a acquainted challenge: finding what’s blocking advancement and determining what to do next.

Today, we’re introducing the Overview leaf as an opt-in community preview, alongside rollout continuing through the weekend. It brings merge position and next accessible actions to the top of the leaf in a compact preparedness summary. It’s the archetypal stage toward making drag requests easier to prosecute as code, conversations, and reviews evolve.

The merge box, distilled

We’re starting alongside the merge box, the location developers go to see whether a drag petition can move forward. Rather than fair moving it higher, we’ve additionally redesigned it to display the identical data in small than fractional the space.

1. Explore the supporting signals: A compact perspective of checks, comments, and approvals keeps the environment nearby without making all item vie for attention.
2. Address what’s blocking: Take act to move the drag petition forward, specified as updating your branch.
3. See if it’s prepared to merge: Check merge preparedness and merge whenever requirements are met.

Start alongside the summary, afterward prosecute the item that matters to your next stage (e.g., get to failing checks, see who motionless needs to approve, or open the applicable comments).

Keep your place. Focus your attention.

This archetypal preview additionally introduces additional ways to capture up on action and concentration the conversation so you can expend small period finding your place.

1. Narrow the conversation: Filter for unresolved conversations or comments you wrote to discover open questions or prosecute up on your feedback.
2. Read the latest comments first: Sort comments from newest to oldest alternatively of starting alongside the earliest discussion.
3. Catch up on activity: Use the summary in the upper-right to discover assessment comments, assessment requests, and another updates.

You can additionally grade a outline prepared for assessment or near a drag petition from the header, alongside accessible actions depending on your permissions.

Try the new overview

To join, choose the ✨ Try the Overview page clasp in the header. We’re beginning this preview first so you can try the new direction on your own drag requests and assistance form what comes next. You can use the identical list to come back to the traditional overview during the preview.

Help form what comes next

This preview is extremely much a starting point, not the completed drag petition experience. Try it on your next drag request. What is easier to find? Where do you motionless endure context? What sends you rear to the traditional overview?

Share your feedback and study issues in the overview preview feedback discussion.