6  Merging a branch locally

6.1 Merging a branch locally

• A PR is essentially doing a merge on GitHub, you can merge branches locally as well

• Say we created a new branch edit-readme and made a commit on it

• To merge edit-readme into main switch to main

  

• Select edit-readme and click “Create a merge commit”

  

• Then push the new commits onto main upto GitHub (when appropriate)

  

• Then you can delete the edit-readme branch

  

• Confirm the deletion