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> My biggest issue, which I guess is a non-issue for most others?, is I hate when reviewing a PR that every single line comment generates a message/email.

> is there anything for github that does the same? Maybe one of their offline tools?

Nope. Even the API doesn't allow this, you can only create one "review comment" at a time and no matter how fast you create them (or if you carefully create all of them over a persistent connection) each and every one of them will generate one notification and one outbound mail.

That went pretty well the first time I tried to get a linter to annotate a PR. The annotation worked, but I discovered some people's mailboxes can not handle getting 50 mails from the same source in a fraction of a second (and oddly enough people are not fond of getting 50 one-line emails from the same place).

(I asked github support about it, they confirmed the only workaround is to not use inline comments)



You should also be able to switch to digest emails from GitHub. Do they support that?


Users might not, even if GitHub does. I would hate to get 50 emails because I don't want digests and I watch a certain project.




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