The heart of collaboration – the pull request
A pull request is more than just a classical code review. It's a way to do the following:
- Collaborate on code
- Share knowledge
- Create shared ownership of the code
- Collaborate across team boundaries
But what exactly is a pull request? A pull request—also known as a merge request— is a process of integrating changes from other branches into a target branch in your Git repository. The changes can come from a branch within your repository or from a fork—a copy of your repository. Pull request is often abbreviated to PR. People without write permissions can fork your repository and create pull requests. This allows owners of open source repositories to allow contributions without giving everyone write access to the repository. That's why in the open source world, pull requests are the default for integrating changes into the repository.
Pull requests can also be used to collaborate...