Pull Requests

Pull requests are a way to poke someone and let them know you’ve got some code they may want.

They work great when you want to let an upstream maintainer know that you’ve pushed some useful changes to your fork of their project.

They also work great if you want to let a fellow developer know that you’ve pushed some experimental features to an arbitrary branch.

Step One

First, navigate to your project with the changes you want someone else to pull. In this instance, I’m going to go to defunkt/grit and tell mojombo to pull a change.

Step Two

I can type in a message if I want and select any number of recipients. By default, I’ll see everyone who has a project in my project’s network. If I want to add someone else, I can use the autocompleter and click ‘add.’

Step Three

Sent!

Step Four

When mojombo logs in, he’ll see that there’s a new message waiting for him.

Step Five

mojombo can reply to my message, delete it, or ignore it. Pulling from me is easy:

$ git remote add defunkt git://github.com/defunkt/grit.git
$ git checkout -b defunkt/master
$ git pull defunkt master:4f0ea0c