How to Quickly Check Contents of Pull Requests Before Merging with on Windows with GitHub CLI

The aim of this page📝 is to share a little PowerShell wrapper around GitHub CLI I am using daily

The wrapper does 3 steps within a single command:

1. Lists the description of a Pull Request
2. Prints out the actual changes that were done
3. Prompts of the actual merge should be done

I am using this as a trust but verify measure when performing releases/rollouts/deployments and I am given a particular Pull Request ID from developers. The prereq of course is that the GitHub CLI is up and running on your machine.

1. NOTES

• Add this to your $profile

function mpr($pr_number) {
    $pr_number | % {
        Write-Host "—— THE DWARVES ARE CHECKING A PR DIFFs ——" -ForegroundColor Darkblue -BackgroundColor DarkYellow
        Write-Host "—— VIEW ——" -ForegroundColor DarkCyan
        gh pr view $_
        Pause
        Write-Host "—— DIFFs ——" -ForegroundColor DarkCyan
        gh pr diff $_ 
        Pause
        Write-Host "—— MERGE ——" -ForegroundColor DarkCyan
        gh pr merge $_
    }
}

• Navigate to the repo in terminal
• run mpr <PR#>

2. LINKS

• GitHub CLI