Requesting code review for bulk files and projects

In some circumstances, you may want specific parts of a git repository reviewed by the PullRequest network outside the context of a pull/merge request (ie - a collection of files or the entire repository).

The following steps outline the most secure way of creating a PullRequest review job within your version control hosting provider. These commands work on Mac, Linux, and Windows PowerShell.

Steps:

1. Check out the latest code locally for the repository that you want reviewed

2. cd into your repository's local checkout.

cd my_repo

3. Delete visible files/folders within this directory.

Make sure you are in the root of your local repository that is tracked by git already as mentioned on the line above.

rm -r *

4. Checkout and create a branch called deleted_code

git checkout -b deleted_code

5. Add your local changes of deleting the files.

git add .

6. Commit these changes.

git commit -m "deleting all files to prepare for review"

7. Push this branch to git origin.

git push origin deleted_code

8. Checkout and create a branch called code_to_review

git checkout -b code_to_review

9. Grab all of the code from your main repository branch (likely master or develop).

git checkout master -- .

10. This should have added all of the files you deleted back. Add them to git staging.

git add .

11. Commit changes of adding back code.

git commit -m "adding back files to be reviewed"

12. Push code_to_review branch to git origin.

git push origin code_to_review

13. Then open a pull/merge request in your version control hosting provider (ie - GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab):

14. Request a code review from the PullRequest network by:

• Logging in to PullRequest and connect to your provider.

• Selecting the Pull Requests ( or Merge Requests ) page from the sidebar.

• Clicking "Request" in the PullRequest App.

Alternatively, you can also request the code review by adding [pr] to the title of the pull/merge request.

Requesting review from the PullRequest App