My team is transitioning to GIT, and we are just doing our first pull-requests. Since GIT recommends every new feature have its own branch and then merge it ...

GitHub has introduced draft pull requests to handle work-in-progress scenarios where you might want to open a PR or start a conversation with your teammates before your code is ready to be reviewed.

This feature integrates with GitHub’s protected branches, Berman said — if the reviewer requested changes to a pull request on a protected branch, the pull request can be blocked. Above: Part ...

Microsoft-owned GitHub announced GitHub Desktop 3.0, noting that it provides better integration for developer pull requests (PRs). GitHub Desktop, for the unfamiliar, is described as an open source ...

GitHub has added a new feature to pull requests, allowing developers to mark their requests as a draft.Marking a request as a draft allows the developer to highlight to other collaborators that ...

In order to conduct this research, Murphy-Hill and his colleagues analyzed more than three million pull requests (methods to improve code on a project) from around 330,000 GitHub users, about ...

However, a GitHub pull request is very different from a status update; whereas Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wanted to avoid the possibility of bullying that a dislike button might bring, the ...