leave comment on file names

[caoilte]

I often want to leave pull request comments requesting a file name change. AFAICT there is no direct way to do this and so I always end up leaving a comment on the first line of the file instead. It would be a lot cleaner if I could leave a comment on the whole file (especially if i could do it as a code suggestion).

[cschneid]

Similarly, sometimes a discussion is about the entire file, not any particular lines inside of it.

We had the case recently where a whole file looked pretty ugly, but for fairly good reasons. On a PR comment, i'd like to reiterate those reasons, and be able to have a short discussion thread about that.

But I'm limited to commenting on Line #1, and while it's often a code smell, import React is not what I'm talking about 😄.

Similarly, there's other parts of the PR to really review, and leaving just a top-level description on the PR doesn't point people at this important spot for discussion.

[kilaka]

Does it sound reasonable to comment on the first line until we have such a feature?
This is out of the first line's context but good enough for now?

[yo1995]

Sometime a change is file rename only, which makes it impossible to leave comment on the first line of the file. It would great if there is a way to suggest a change to the file name/path.

[ptrkstr]

Another use case I have for this is sometimes a PR contains a binary file change, for example a snapshot test having a reference image updated. I'd like the ability to comment on the binary file change. I currently cannot as there are no source code lines to start the comment.

[aditya81070]

Another use case, sometimes I want to comment on the location of the file so I have to comment on the first line and tell that code looks good on this line but can we move this file to folder x.

[yo1995]

I noticed GitHub added this feature (actually partially, currently can only comment, not suggest change) today! #49954