On: Evolving GitHub Issues

[mdaniel]

Out of curiosity, what would you expect any such UI to look like in that case? Merging the comments? Even right now one can comment "closing as it is a dupe of #666" and GH will cheerfully create bidirectional links, the link in the comment and the other issue will get a "mention" comment

[mckn1ght → mdaniel]

I would expect it to create a tree of comments using the UI from discussions. The linear nature of comments on issues and PRs is cumbersome.

[mdaniel → mckn1ght]

Evidently both you and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41709123 can continue to hold your breath on threaded comments