Get a review comment for a pull request
GET {{baseUrl}}/repos/:owner/:repo/pulls/comments/:comment_id
Note: Multi-line comments on pull requests are currently in public beta and subject to change.
Provides details for a review comment.
Multi-line comment summary
Note: New parameters and response fields are available for developers to preview. During the preview period, these response fields may change without advance notice. Please see the blog post for full details.
Use the comfort-fade
preview header and the line
parameter to show multi-line comment-supported fields in the response.
If you use the comfort-fade
preview header, your response will show:
- For multi-line comments, values for
start_line
,original_start_line
,start_side
,line
,original_line
, andside
. - For single-line comments, values for
line
,original_line
, andside
and anull
value forstart_line
,original_start_line
, andstart_side
.
If you don't use the comfort-fade
preview header, multi-line and single-line comments will appear the same way in the response with a single position
attribute. Your response will show:
- For multi-line comments, the last line of the comment range for the
position
attribute. - For single-line comments, the diff-positioned way of referencing comments for the
position
attribute. For more information, seeposition
in the input parameters table.
The reactions
key will have the following payload where url
can be used to construct the API location for listing and creating reactions.
RESPONSES
status: OK
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