Shortcut for approving merged pull requests

Often times I’m still reviewing pull requests that have been merged already. It would be nice if there would an approve button.

Currently it looks like this:

Maybe a button next to Submit review that is called Approve and when clicked will insert :+1: into the textfield and hit on the submit review button.

[tshtatland]

I had cases like the one described in the OP above, when the PR was merged before I approved it. I could not prevent the PR from being merged into master (this is as intended - my opinion is advisory only, not meant to prevent anyone from carrying out what is the best course of action). But there have been cases when I want to go back later and actually approve the PR after the branch was merged into master. This is, for example, for record keeping purposes, and for team communication purposes. We need to know and keep track of what was approved and not approved, and why. I could only find a way to comment that I approve. I could not find a way to approve and display the “<user name> approved these changes” icon in the UI.

[sindresorhus]

Thanks for the suggestion, but we’re going to pass on this 😃