Expose Pull Request comments as environment variables - similar to the git infos

[viktorbenei]

Hi @frankpiva,

Thanks for the Feature Requests!

@frankpiva

I plan on including these calls in my existing Script step and saving them with envman so that they persist to my other steps.

Right now that’s the best solution.
If you have the time feel free to create a Step for it - you can now use the new

bitrise :step create

step generator, which is built into the latest Bitrise CLI (1.6.1 - Monthly release of Bitrise CLI tools and summary of updates (May, 2017) - CLI v1.6.1).

@frankpiva

I was hoping that there would already be a mechanism in Bitrise for achieving this, but as far as I’m aware, Bitrise does not create an environment that contains the pull request comments.

Indeed only commit/git infos are exposed. That’s because comments on PRs are 1) GitHub API specific (won’t work with another git service, have to be implemented for each, separately) and 2) comments are not attached to the state of the repository. E.g. it might be that the build is already started but someone adds a new comment to the PR.