updating github pull request

Question

Can I modify someone's pull request to my repository and add these modifications to that pull request?

Say A forked my repo, added a feature branch, and made a pull request on my repo. I want to make some changes to the pull request, and not necessarily merge it yet, but update the pull request. Is this possible?

Possible duplicate of [Multi-user Github Pull Requests](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13592653/multi-user-github-pull-requests) — Stevoisiak, May 08 '17 at 23:13

aspiring_sarge · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-18T04:55:11.773

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Long answer short: No. Not unless you have permission to edit that person's fork. You can, however, pull in the person's commits and work on top of them as shown below. Note that this will not modify the PR, but only enable you to keep the person's commits.

You could create a new branch. Then point a remote to the branch on which A submitted the PR, pull in changes from A's branch and then work on those changes.

Steps: Assume A's fork lies at https://github.com/repo/A.git and A's branch name is <A's_branch_name>.

Create a new branch on Github (say aBranch).
Run a git pull to pull in the branch.
Change to the new branch using
git checkout aBranch.
Create a remote pointing to A's branch using
git remote add aBranchRemote https://github.com/repo/A.git.
Pull in A's changes with a
git merge aBranchRemote <A's_branch_name>

PS: I've not tested these steps, but it should work fine. I faced a very similar situation yesterday, and this worked.

edited Dec 18 '14 at 04:55

answered Dec 18 '14 at 04:37

aspiring_sarge

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In which of these steps is the changes I make reflected in the pull request? Because I just tried creating a branch with the same name as ``, pull all changes, make my new changes, and push this branch to my repo. Yet, the pull request is not changed, i.e. different from the branch on my repo. – pyrookie Dec 18 '14 at 04:51
sorry. updated the answer. You can't modify someone's PR unless you have write access to tehir branch, which Im assuming you dont. You can, however, work on top of their commits, as illustrated. – aspiring_sarge Dec 18 '14 at 04:56
In case you do have access, however, its simply matter of pulling their fork of the repo, and pushing directly to it, much like how you would do if the branch were your own. The PR will get automatically updated. – aspiring_sarge Dec 18 '14 at 04:57

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