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GitHub New PR Overview
Launching today
GitHub's new pull request overview page moves merge status to the top, with checks, approvals, comments, and next actions in one compact summary. It also adds unresolved-comment filters, newest-first sorting, and an activity panel.
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Hi everyone!
The change is simple: @GitHub moved the merge box to the top of the pull request page. Checks, approvals and comments sit in one small summary, next to the buttons you'd press next, like updating the branch or merging.
If you've ever opened a PR with 80 comments and a pile of bot messages just to find out why it won't merge, you know why this matters. You can also filter to unresolved threads or your own comments, and sort comments by newest or oldest.
It isn't a hit with everyone yet. In the feedback thread, people miss the links to force-push diffs, find newest-first an odd default, and a few say the slow PR page is the bigger problem. It's opt-in and still rolling out, so you might not see the button yet. You can go back to the classic view from the same menu.
Does the summary also show who needs to act next? ‘Waiting for approval’ is more useful that way.
Where is the "Try the Overview page" button 😾 I can't find it. I so want to try this! :D
@alchemist_studio Try to make a new PR and it's there:
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Maybe its only for payed accounts or public repos or something. Very strange
I usually come back to a PR a day later and have to re-read the whole thread to remember where it stood, so having the merge status and summary right at the top is the part that helps me most — I don't have to scroll through 80 comments and bot messages just to get back up to speed. Curious if the classic view sticks around long-term, or if Overview is meant to replace it once it rolls out fully?
unresolved threads filter is the sleeper feature here. on a long PR the blocker is usually one buried thread nobody resolved