Does Github send notification emails when an issue comment is edited?

Question

For the people who are configured to receive notifications when a comment is posted to an issue in a Github repo: do they also get sent another email notification if that comment is edited?

Answer 1

No, you do not get a notification if a comment, issue title, or description is edited or even deleted. This can get very confusing if you are answering via email and quote non-existent text.

There is an issue requesting this feature but it has been open for ~2 years without activity. Maybe giving that proposal a thumbs up could help. Unfortunately, no one will be notified of that reactions either...

Answer 2

Just want to add that, per my experiment, if edit a comment to add a @mention, the mentioned user will receive the notification, but only once, regardless of how many edits afterward and whether they are mentioned or not.

Also, quoting a user's reply without @mention that user won't notify that user if that user is not subscribed^[1] to the issue.

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^{[1] Subscribed: Receive all notifications from this issue.}