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Feature request: show the MR description during Code Review

Open jasonatwell opened this issue 2 months ago • 2 comments

Trying out lab for the first time today, thanks for the hard work! Is it possible to see the MR's description during a code review? I did lab-list-my-merge-requests, selected an MR, and now I can see the diff but it would be very helpful to see the MR description as well

jasonatwell avatar Oct 17 '25 19:10 jasonatwell

This makes sense, and I actually implemented an org-mode based overview buffer for merge requests containing the MR description and non-code MR comments, changes etc. but it was half-baked and I did not include it. I'll revisit it again soon.

The reason I'm not using the diff buffer itself and utilizing a separate buffer is that in the former case we are utilizing the features of diff-mode and including a non-diff section would make it somewhat unusable. Also using a separate buffer gives us much more flexibility. I'm thinking of a workflow where when you open the merge request the frame gets splitted into two windows, one is the overview buffer I mentioned and the other is the diff buffer where you can do your code review. I am open to more ideas though.

isamert avatar Nov 05 '25 22:11 isamert

I'm thinking of a workflow where when you open the merge request the frame gets splitted into two windows, one is the overview buffer I mentioned and the other is the diff buffer where you can do your code review. I am open to more ideas though.

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That seems good to me

jasonatwell avatar Nov 06 '25 14:11 jasonatwell