Pull requests are made when a developer forks a project, makes changes, and then wants those changes to be included in the main project again. These were made popular by Github and Bitbucket.
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Why is a git 'pull request' not called a 'push request'?
The terminology used to merge a branch with an official repository is a 'pull request'. This is confusing, as it appears that I am requesting to push my changes to the official repository.
Why is it called a pull request and not a push request?
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How to apply unmerged upstream pull requests from other forks into my fork?
A project on GitHub that I have a fork of has a new pull requests that I want to pull into my fork that the author has not pulled in yet.
Is there a simple way to apply pull request from other forks into my fork? Is there something else here that I…
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How can I check out a GitHub pull request with git?
I'd like to check out a previously created pull request (created via GitHub web interface). I searched and found different places where a refs/pull or refs/pull/pr
But when I add fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to the git config…
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How do you attach a new pull request to an existing issue on github?
I'm not sure, but I have a vague memory of creating a github pull request with "Issue 4" or something in the title, and it automatically attached itself to Issue 4 in the project that I was submitting it to. I tried it again recently and it didn't…
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GitHub pull request showing commits that are already in target branch
I'm trying to review a pull request on GitHub to a branch that isn't master. The target branch was behind master and the pull request showed commits from master, so I merged master and pushed it to GitHub, but the commits and diff for them still…
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Can you issue pull requests from the command line on GitHub?
It seems like you have to interact with github.com to initiate a pull request. Is this so?
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Preferred Github workflow for updating a pull request after code review
I've submitted a change to an Open Source project on Github, and received code review comments from one of the core team members.
I would like to update the code taking into account the review comments, and re-submit it. What is the best workflow…
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Delete a closed pull request from GitHub
I accidentally made a wrong pull request and ended up closing the request myself. It's in a closed state right now but it's accessible via direct URL and showing on my activity bar.
Is there any way to delete a pull request completely so it's no…
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On GitHub, what's the difference between reviewer and assignee?
A feature added on Dec, 7, 2016, announced on GitHub blog, introduced the option to add reviewers to a Pull Request
You can now request a review explicitly from collaborators, making it easier to specify who you'd like to review your pull…
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How to do a GitHub pull request
How do I create and/or send a pull request to another repository hosted on GitHub?
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Send a pull request on GitHub for only latest commit
I forked a project on github and am successfully making changes to my local master and pushing to origin on github. I want to send a pull request, but only want to include the last commit. The pull request UI on github.com shows the last 9 commits…
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Find a Pull Request on GitHub where a commit was originally created
Pull Requests are great for understanding the larger thinking around a change or set of changes made to a repo. Reading pull requests are a great way to quickly "grok" a project as, instead of small atomic changes to the source, you get larger…
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Undo a merge by pull request?
Someone accepted a pull request which they shouldn't have. Now we have a bunch of broken code merged in. How do you undo a pull request? I was just going to revert the changes to the commit just before the merge, but I noticed that it merged in a…
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Prevent pushing to master on GitHub?
GitHub allows you to configure your repository so that users can't force push to master, but is there a way to prevent pushing to master entirely? I'm hoping to make it so that the only way of adding to commits to master is through the GitHub pull…
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How to modify GitHub pull request?
I've opened a pull request to a project. The maintainer has decided to accept it, but told me to modify some contents.
How can I do it? Whether I should keep the commit hash unchanged, how can I do it?
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