How to review a pull request in IntelliJ IDEA?
bitbucket, git, intellij-idea
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.
Problem
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?