How to make a PR
How to make a PR
This tutorial shows how to make a simple PR (Pull Request).
Get the code
I will use my pr tutorial repository as an example. You can clone it, but I’d recommend you to use your own.
git clone [email protected]:rafaelhdr/pr-example.git
Use recent code
(you can skip this step if cloned the repository)
Most of the time you won’t be cloning a repository, but using an existent one. In this case, go to the master branch and get the most recent code
git checkout master
go to master
git pull origin master
to update it with the most recent code
Branch
Let’s create a new branch to make the changes. We will create a new branch, and then make a Pull Request to merge the changes to the master branch (normally the master, but it can be others).
git branch make-chapter-2
to create a new branch called make-chapter-2
git checkout make-chapter-2
to go to the new create branch
Tip: The 2 commands above could be changed to
git branch -b make-chapter-2
Change something in the code (e.g. add a lorem ipsum paragraph at content.txt).
git add content.txt
to add the changed code to the commit
git commit -m "make chapter 2"
to create the commit with the changes
Now, your local code is updated. We just need to push it to the server (in my case, GitLab).
git push origin make-chapter-2
Ready
And the code is ready. You can check in the GitLab (and merge from there).