Open existing PR/MR or open repo in browser

[bryan-lott]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I love the "create pull request" feature, however, once the pull request is created there isn't an easy way to get back to it from lazygit. I.e., I open a draft PR to show a colleague something, they provide feedback, I update changes, push to the PR, but have to jump back to my browser, find the (probably closed) tab, to interact with the PR.

Describe the solution you'd like
Either:

1. A command to open the existing PR in the browser (preferably).
2. A command to open the repo in the browser (if number 1 is too much of a pain).

(side note: thanks for creating such an awesome tool, having used magit in emacs, gitkraken, vscode's git plugins, etc, lazygit is easily at the top of the pack!!)

[stefanhaller]

If you have the github command line tool, you can solve this with a custom command:

customCommands:
  - key: "G"
    command: "gh pr view -w {{.SelectedLocalBranch.Name}}"
    context: "localBranches"
    description: "Go to PR in github"
    stream: true

Hopefully lazygit will have this built in in the future, see the last bullet point of this comment.

[bryan-lott]

Unfortunately I'm on gitlab, though gitlab does have a CLI tool, wonder if I can leverage that somehow? I'll dig in and post here if I come up with a solution.

Really appreciate your config to work from, thanks!

[bryan-lott]

Very similar... just need the gitlab cli client: brew install glab

customCommands:
  - key: "G"
    command: "glab mr view -w {{.SelectedLocalBranch.Name}}"
    context: "localBranches"
    description: "Go to MR in gitlab"
    stream: true

[jesseduffield]

@bryan-lott nice work finding that command. Feel free to add that to the Custom Commands Compendium so that others can find it easily :)

[mark2185]

Just a note, might be better to use the name of the upstream branch, in case they differ.

[bryan-lott]

Just a note, might be better to use the name of the upstream branch, in case they differ.

unfortunately using .SelectedRemoteBranch.Name in place of .SelectedLocalBranch.Name returns an error:

template: template:1:39: executing "template" at <.SelectedRemoteBranch.Name>: nil pointer evaluating *models.RemoteBranch.Name

[bryan-lott]

@bryan-lott nice work finding that command. Feel free to add that to the Custom Commands Compendium so that others can find it easily :)

Done, thanks!

https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/wiki/Custom-Commands-Compendium#open-existing-gitlab-pull-request-in-browser

[mark2185]

unfortunately using .SelectedRemoteBranch.Name in place of .SelectedLocalBranch.Name returns an error:

template: template:1:39: executing "template" at <.SelectedRemoteBranch.Name>: nil pointer evaluating *models.RemoteBranch.Name

You probably need .SelectedLocalBranch.UpstreamBranch.

[bryan-lott]

Ah, perfect, that works!

[Chris-Petty]

It's pretty cool that you can configure custom commands to solve this problem! I'll give this a whirl 😃. That said I came hunting around in issues, and thankfully found this one, because I wasn't sure if I was doing something wrong when it wouldn't take me to the already open PR which I had made via lazygit "O" command, rather opening a new "compare" for a new PR on the same branch. That said a couple ideas that could maybe be cool to add:

1. Could "O" open the existing PR? I know it's hard to change standard behaviours after they've existed a long while, but I do think it's more common to want to view the existing PR rather than create a new one.
2. And/or add a coloured status to the right of branches that indicate a PR exists
3. Or add a new tab "PRs" that allows you to checkout branches related to PRs and a shortcut to open on the remote's website in the set/default browser.

For some more context my muscle memory from Github desktop, carried over to lazygit, is to press "O" to try opening the PR after having previously used "O" to create the PR. (Github desktop equivalent is "c-r" ).

Happy to have a crack at implementing any of the above if there's any interest 🙂.