tuicr/Q/If I comment on a PR and exit without running submit, is the comment still there next time I open the PR?

• If I comment on a PR and exit tuicr without running :submit, is the comment still there next time I open the PR?

  • AI Answer

    • Short answer: yes — comments are written to disk immediately when saved, not held only in memory until :submit.
    • Each review session (including its review_comments, file comments, and line comments) is a ReviewSession struct persisted as JSON under the platform data dir at tuicr/reviews/sessions/<hash>.json, indexed by a manifest at tuicr/reviews/index.json (src/persistence/storage.rs).
    • save_comment() in src/app/comments.rs adds/edits the comment on self.session, then unconditionally calls self.save_current_session_merging_external() — this is an autosave that happens right after every comment add or edit, well before :submit.
    • save_current_session_merging_external() (src/app/session.rs) calls storage::save_session_by_identity, which writes the merged session to its JSON file on disk (merging any concurrent external changes to the same session file first).
    • New comments start life in CommentLifecycleState::LocalDraft (src/model/comment.rs) — this state only becomes PushedDraft/Submitted once :submit pushes them to GitHub. LocalDraft comments are still fully persisted locally; the lifecycle state governs whether they're locked/editable, not whether they're saved.
    • So exiting without :submit loses nothing: reopening the same PR reloads the session file from disk (load_pr_session) and the draft comment is still there, still editable, still unsubmitted.
    • Source: local clone github.com/agavra/tuicr at commit 2e8475c (src/app/comments.rs, src/app/session.rs, src/persistence/storage.rs, src/model/comment.rs).