Posts tagged with "next-gh-pr.el"

A quick little update to next-gh-pr.el. Since writing the first version I've found it to be really useful, but I've also bumped into one small issue. Sometimes I'll create a draft PR before I remember to start the changelog entry, and so then I want to insert the current PR link rather than the next one.

Now, sure, I can just go and copy the URL and create the link in the changelog, but where's the fun in that when I can solve the problem in Emacs Lisp? So, with this in mind, I've just updated the package so that, with a prefix argument to the command, it will include a link for the latest PR rather than for the next one.

This does, of course, make the name a little less correct, but I'm not going to rename the package or the command for this one minor difference in intent.

Pretty much every project that I actively maintain on my GitHub account has a change log of some description. For a long time now, whenever I add a new entry to the log, I'll include a link to the PR that implements that change. Inevitably, this results in me adding the ChangeLog entry, creating the PR, then doing a follow-up change and commit now that I know the PR number, which allows me to add the link.

So I've created next-gh-pr.el to save me just a little time and let me be just a little more lazy. Inside it I've currently got a next-gh-pr-insert-markdown-link command which, when run, as you might imagine, inserts a link to the next likely PR URL as Markdown.

Working out the next URL is simple enough: get the latest issue and PR number, take whichever is the highest, and add 1. There is the wrinkle that discussions also cause this number to bump, and getting the latest discussion number is a little extra faff that I can't be bothered with right now, but my projects very seldom have discussions taking place anyway.