gh-blame-pr

A GitHub CLI extension to open the most recent pull request that modified the specified file.

gh-blame-pr uses git blame under the hood and extract the pull request numbers included in the commit messages.

Dependencies

• Ruby >= 2.7
• git when-merged

Installation

gh extension install uasi/gh-blame-pr

Usage

gh blame-pr [<options>] [--] <path>

Options

• --ignore-squash: Disable heuristics for detecting squash merge
• -L <range>: Blame only the line range (can be specified multiple times; see git help blame for details)
• -l, --log: Print the log of the merge commit and the commit that actually modified the file
• -n <number>, --max-count=<number>: Open the <number> most recent pull requests (defaults to 1)
• -m <branch>, --merged-to=<branch>: The branch name into which the pull request might have merged to (defaults to HEAD; can be specified multiple times)
• -p, --print, --no-browser: Print pull request URL instead of opening the browser

Examples

% git clone --branch=v2.54.0 https://github.com/cli/cli.git
% cd cli

% gh blame-pr cmd/gh/main.go
Opening github.com/cli/cli/issues/8449 in your browser.

% gh blame-pr --max-count=2 --no-browser --log cmd/gh/main.go
https://github.com/cli/cli/issues/8449

commit 0f39935cc17c687232776ad4a4db2172559f2a86
(snip)

    Merge pull request #8449 from cli/wm/remove-redundant-err
    
    Remove redundant error on migration failure

commit cceec8e0d015648c3930f309759216ea5351e1d1
(snip)

    Remove redundant error on migration failure

https://github.com/cli/cli/issues/8425

commit 54d56cab3a0882b43ac794df59924dc3f93bb75c
(snip)

    Merge pull request #8425 from cli/wm/multi-account-ux-rebase
    
    Support multiple accounts on a single host

commit eb771aecc9eaf88e0dfdc302b516a7801714f6f8
(snip)

    Address PR comments