GitHub App: PR overview comment re-edited on every push with no content change
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 68/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- backend
Research direction
Start by locating the GitHub App's PR overview comment rendering and update path, then compare the rendered body with the existing comment while ignoring scan-run IDs in dashboard URLs. Done means pushes with an unchanged dependency diff leave the comment untouched and avoid duplicate notifications and issue_comment.edited webhooks.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Description
The Socket GitHub App's PR overview comment (<!-- overview-comment -->) is edited in place after every push, even when the dependency diff is completely unchanged. On one PR I observed 8 edits in ~50 minutes; diffing the bodies, the only change each time was the diff-scan/<uuid> in the dashboard links — same package, same scores, same table, byte-identical otherwise.
Each edit re-notifies subscribers and fires issue_comment.edited webhooks, so unchanged scans produce pure notification churn for humans and bots watching the PR.
Request: skip the comment edit when the rendered body (ignoring scan-run IDs in URLs) is identical to what is already posted. The new scan ID doesn't need to reach the comment — the dashboard already has it
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
- Stars
- 317
- Forks
- 65
- Avg merge
- 1h 26m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 30
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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