Exercise Making a Pull Request
- Make sure you've done our Github forking exercise
- Make sure you've done our Committing and pushing exercise
- Make sure you've done our Resolving merge conflicts exercise
- Make sure you've done our Reverting a commit exercise
Whenever you fork a repository on github, you can make changes to your repository and the request that the author of the original repository merge your work back into the original repository. You want the author to pull from your fork of their repository, and these requests are called pull requests. These are unique to github.
Github provides great features for commenting on a pull request, code reviewing a pull request, and summarizing the commits and changes. As an example of what you can do with a pull request, see my example pull request.
Commenting:
First, let's make a new branch to keep track of our pull request. In bootcamp-git:
git checkout master
git checkout -b pull-request
git push origin pull-request
This will create a new branch called pull-request, and then push this to a new branch on github called pull-request. If you go to the web version of your github repository, you should see it listed under branches at the top.
In your own github repository, click "Pull Requests" on the right.
Now click "New Pull Request".
Click edit, and provide these options:
- For
base fork, choosehcs/bootcamp-gitandbase:master - For
head fork, chooseYOUR-USERNAME/bootcamp-gitandcompare:pull-request
Then hit "Create pull request", and you've created your first pull request!
You can leave comments, leave in-line notes on your code, and more!
NOTE: If you make new commits on top of pull-request and push it to github, then the pull request will automatically reflect the new commits!
Find a partner, and send each other links to your pull requests. Have fun commenting!
In the future, we may have you work on code for assignments. We'll use pull requests so that we can give you code reviews and give you feedback.
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