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The DevOps Toolkit: Working with Jenkins X

Exploring Additional Slash Commands

Explore how to expand your use of slash commands in Jenkins X to manage pull requests efficiently. Understand commands like /hold, /lifecycle, and /meow to document actions and automate processes, enhancing collaboration and decision tracking within ChatOps environments.

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We saw a few of the most commonly employed slash commands used through a typical pull request process. We’ll expand on that next by creating a new PR and experimenting with a few other commands.

Creating a PR for experimentation #

Shell
git checkout master
git pull
git checkout -b my-pr

We created a new branch called my-pr.

Next, we’ll make a minor change to the source code and push it to the newly created branch. Otherwise, GitHub would not allow us to make a pull request if nothing changed.

Shell
echo "My PR" | tee README.md
git add .
git commit \
    --message "My second PR with prow"
git push --set-upstream origin my-pr

We are finally ready to create a pull request.

Shell
jx create pullrequest \
    --title "My PR" \
    --body "What I can say?" \
    --batch-mode

Please open the link from the output in your favorite browser.

You will notice that this time your colleague is automatically assigned as a reviewer. Prow took the list of reviewers from the OWNERS file and saw that there are only two available. Since you made the pull request, it decided to assign the other user as the reviewer. It wouldn’t ...