github - Set a default reviewer

Question

I do pull requests in a repo where it's always the same person reviewing. I would like to set him as the default reviewer so that I don't always have to choose him at each pull request, it'd be automatic. How to do that ?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46340474/set-a-default-reviewer

Answer 1

GitHub has the ability to set the default reviewer using a CODEOWNERS file.

Code owners are automatically requested for review when someone opens a pull request that modifies code that they own. When someone with admin permissions has enabled required reviews, they can optionally require approval from a code owner.

To use a CODEOWNERS file, create a new file called CODEOWNERS in the root, docs/, or .github/ directory of the repository, in the branch where you'd like to add the code owners.