GIT Commit Message for a PR

Question

Is there any git Command to get the commit message for a specific PR.

git log gives me the complete history, but I have a PR and wanted to list all the commit message for the PR.

Answer 1

A PR has nothing to do with git , really; that's something that GitHub has created to ease the process of collaborating with others. That means that the git command itself doesn't know anything about pull requests.

You have a few options if you want to interact with pull requests on the command line.

GitHub provides instructions for checking out a pull request locally. You can run something like:

git fetch origin pull/123/head:my-interesting-pr

And then:

git checkout my-interesting-pr

That's fine for individual PRs, but it doesn't allow you to list existing pull requests, create new ones, or otherwise interact with GitHub pull requests or issues.

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You can install GitHub's own gh cli , which will let you do things like:

gh pr list

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There is another CLI for GitHub called hub that when installed properly will let you run:

git pr list

Both tools will let you check out a pr locally so that you can examine the commits that it includes.