View, filter, and open pull requests

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You create pull requests (PRs) to review and merge code changes in a Git repository on Azure Repos. Team members and stakeholders can review changes and give feedback before merging the code into the target branch. Reviewers can also comment on changes and vote to approve or reject the code.

Teams can require PRs for any changes on protected branches, and set branch policies to require certain PRs to meet specific criteria.

There are several ways to list, filter, view, and open PRs for a project.

Prerequisites

• To view or review PRs, you must be a member of the Azure DevOps project with Basic access or higher. If you aren't a project member, get added.

• To learn more about permissions and access, see Default Git repository and branch permissions and About access levels.

List pull requests

You can list PRs by using the Azure DevOps project website, Visual Studio, or the Azure DevOps command line.

Browser

Manage PRs you own or are assigned to with the Pull Requests tab in the Code page on the web.

You can view all of your PRs in your organization, across all projects, by choosing My pull requests from the Projects page.

Visual Studio

To list pull requests from Visual Studio, in the Git menu, select <your Git service> > View Pull Requests.

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 and later versions provides a Git version control experience while maintaining the Team Explorer Git user interface. To use Team Explorer, uncheck Tools > Options > Preview Features > New Git user experience from the menu bar. You can exercise Git features from either interface interchangeably.

To access PRs from Visual Studio Team Explorer:

1. Connect to your project from Visual Studio.

2. Select View > Team Explorer to open Team Explorer. You can also press Ctrl+\, Ctrl+M.

3. From Home, select Pull Requests to view lists of PRs opened by you or assigned to you.

4. To view the PR list in the Azure DevOps web portal, select Actions and then select Open in browser.

   

Azure DevOps CLI

Azure DevOps CLI commands aren't supported for Azure DevOps Server on-premises.

Define a custom pull request view

Filtering the PR list helps you find and organize PRs to prioritize the most important files in your workflow.

Browser

Visual Studio

To filter pull requests from Visual Studio:

1. In the Git menu, select <your Git service> > View Pull Requests.

2. Filter by Author, Label, or other attributes.

From the Team Explorer Pull Requests view:

• Select Active, or Assigned to me or my team, to filter the PR lists by PR status or assignment.
• Or, type in the Type here to filter the list fields to filter the PR lists by date, author, branch, or other attributes.

Azure DevOps CLI

Azure DevOps CLI commands aren't supported for Azure DevOps Server on-premises.

Open a pull request

When you open a PR from the browser, from Visual Studio, or from Azure CLI, the PR Overview page opens in the browser.

Browser

To open a PR in the browser, select the PR from the list on the Pull requests page. The PR opens to its Overview tab. The Overview tab shows the PR title, description, reviewers, linked worked items, history, and status. You can see a summary of branch policies that are passing or failing, and see comments reviewers have made.

On the PR Files tab, you can review the actual changes in the PR files. On the Updates and Commits tabs, you can see changes the author has made to update the PR branch.

Visual Studio

To open a pull request from Visual Studio, in the Git menu, select <your Git service> > View Pull Requests, then select a pull request to open it.

Or, from the Team Explorer Pull Requests view, right-click the PR and select Open in browser to open the PR in the web portal.

Check out a branch

In Visual Studio 2019, you can check out a PR's source branch directly from the Pull Requests view. Right-click a PR, and choose Checkout Source Branch.

Note

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 and later versions provide a new Git menu for managing the Git workflow with less context switching than Team Explorer. Procedures provided in this article under the Visual Studio tab provide information for using the Git experience as well as Team Explorer. To learn more, see Side-by-side comparison of Git and Team Explorer.

Azure DevOps CLI

Azure DevOps CLI commands aren't supported for Azure DevOps Server on-premises.

To review changes, make comments or suggestions, or approve or vote on the PR, see Review pull requests.

View and update pull requests from a mobile device

You can use mobile devices to view all Azure Repos PR screens and take actions.

Next steps

Review pull requests

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