Add "Sort by Merge date" for PRs (is:pr is:closed) to PR Sort drop down

[MartinDahlborgCHR]

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Hello GitHub, Thank you for a great product.
When sorting closed PRs it would be very helpful to be able to sort by Merge-date (for closed PRs it would be the Close-date).

Not all PRs get merged in sequence. And if you add a comment on an old PR it gets to the top of "Sorted by latest activity".

Suggested added menu items

• Recently Merged
• Least Recently Merged
  
  Two screen shots to illustrate:
  

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[jesse-w1]

Please make this a priority. The GitHub default sort order is not useful and it makes the UI annoying by having to select "Recently updated" every time. The "Recently updated" sort order is much better, but is lacking compared to merge by date. See BitBucket as an example of a more user friendly UI.

[JohnLKramer]

Github, please implement this. It really would help usability so so much. Thank you!

[victora-profusion]

Seems like such a small feature with so much potential — I hope it a feature soon! Thanks!

[Kboland01]

This would be such a great addition. Would use this all the time.

[jasonelliott]

Adding my vote for this sort feature. I find the default Sort by Newst/Oldest almost useless - deceptive. What exactly is "newest"? PR creation date? Feature branch creation date? It's definitely not PR merge date, which is the most useful for me. Please add this sort feature. It can't be that difficult.

[burdorfmitchell]

I just ran into this issue and am adding my vote the current behavior is deceptive.

[pkofod]

bump. Just ran into this as well

[northwestwitch]

This feature would be super useful! 🙏🏻

[Wyfy0107]

Bump!!!!!

[nickgRO]

Still need this 😭

[prad9192]

Hurts!

[greggman]

Same, Look for the last 3 PRs that were merged, some are off the screen as they're listed by date of first upload.

[anentropic]

This is such an obviously useful option, meanwhile the options provided are mostly useless (why would I ever want to sort closed PRs by "least commented"?)

Also the default sort is stupid - if I am viewing closed PRs why would I care about when they were first opened?

"Recently updated" is closest to what we want, merging counts as updated, but I'm not sure what else counts as an update (comments?) so maybe some actions could mess up the order

[MartinDahlborgCHR]

Correct, any comment messes up the sequence.

what else counts as an update (comments?) so maybe some actions could mess up the order

I forget if mentions of PR from other PR counts as "update". :P

[anentropic]

I also hate the super unhelpful date hiding that becomes: "merged 3 weeks ago"

how is that useful for anyone? show me the actual date!