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).