review-comments-action

Usage

This GitHub action post comments based on pull request changes.

Setup

⚠️ Important: in order for action to work you need to give GitHub actions a permission to write, otherwise it will throw RequestError [HttpError]: Resource not accessible by integration. The permission can be granted in the yaml config or in the repository settings: Settings -> Actions -> General -> Workflow permissions

This action receives 2 required params:

• token: your GitHub token
• datapath: a path to a yaml file with a config that contains prependMsg and checks props. prependMsg is a message that prepends to every message of the bot. Keep empty if not needed. By default it’s 🗯️ [pull-request-auto-reviewer]: (as per screenshot). checks props consists of pairs of paths and message keys. paths dedicated to specify path(s) of changes that would trigger posting of followed message as a pull request comment. In case of multiple paths they should be separated by a comma. message could be a simple string or a markdown. Example

A typical setting may look like this:

on:
  pull_request:
    branches:
      - main

jobs:
  review:
    name: Post review comments
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      pull-requests: write
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - name: pull-request-auto-reviewer
        uses: pshergie/pull-request-auto-reviewer@1.4
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          datapath: docs/data.yml