Now saving drafts of comments

Have you ever been in the middle of writing a code comment and find yourself needing to switch context for a single minute? When you returned to the diff, did you find that your comment disappeared while you were in the middle of writing it?

In the latest release of GitHub for Visual Studio, we added the ability to save drafts of comments. As they are written, comment drafts are saved to a SQLite database and displayed when a user comes back to them later. Now, in-progress comments will never be lost again.

A big thanks to @grokys for working on the save drafts feature!

Drafts of inline comments

When reviewing a pull request, it’s common to write inline comments in the file diffs. Sometimes it’s necessary to switch back and forth between files (and other views) within Visual Studio. Now the diff can be closed and reopened and the in-progress comment is restored right where you left it.

Drafts of pull request review summaries

After reviewing a pull request, it’s time to submit your review. From this view, you can navigate away and come back to the summary later so you can easily complete your review.

Drafts of creating pull requests

For creating a pull request, you can close the Create Pull Request form and return to it later—the title and description are filled out just as you left them. Even better, Visual Studio can be restarted and the content will be restored.

Try it out

This is the latest feature we have added as we continue to build out our pull request workflow. Download the latest version of GitHub for Visual Studio and try it out.

We’d love to hear what you think! Feedback is always welcome in our repository or on Twitter.

Written by

Meaghan Lewis

@meaghanlewis