Comment on a line in Github without a commit?

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mlepage picture mlepage · Oct 2, 2012 · Viewed 35k times · Source

In github, you can comment on lines in a commit. Is there a way to comment on a line, while viewing a file in a branch, without having a particular commit?

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Farid Movsumov picture Farid Movsumov · Jan 23, 2013

Unfortunately it is not possible to comment on a line in Github without a commit.

But you can create links to lines in your file (click on line and copy link on browser bar). For example you can use this links in your issues to discuss about code line:

https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/blob/master/src/Runner/StandardTestSuiteLoader.php#L72

Update

You can also hold shift to obtain a link to a block of lines

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