5  Making a pull request

5.1 Making a pull request

• Let’s start by creating a new branch

  

• We do some work (in VSCode/text editor/RStudio) which creates a markdown file with a title and some text. We then make a new commit which adds this new file to the repo

  

• Next publish the new branch to GitHub

  

• Now initiate the creation of the PR by either clicking in GitHub Desktop “Create Pull Request”

  

• or clicking on the button on the repo webpage “Compare & pull request”

  

• Edit the title box, add some extra text in the comment box, select a reviewer, and then click “Create pull request”

  

• You can amend/edit pull requests by modifying/adding commits to the branch from which you sent the PR

• See more about pull request reviews here

• (The reviewer) will then merge your PR

  

• (The reviewer) will then confirm the merge

  

• (Optional) Delete the branch the PR came from

  

• The PR is now finished and we can see the merge commit in the default (main/master) branch

  

• In GitHub Desktop click “Fetch origin”/“Pull origin” to pull the updated main/master branch down to your local machine … and the process begins again …