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How to modify an unresponsive PR? #32123
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Let's assume someone create a PR (against When the maintainer want to have a modification to that PR before merging. How can he do this? The PR comes from a fork ( |
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The easiest option is if the person who opened the PR enabled the option that allows people with write access to the target repository to push to the PR branch. In that case the maintainer can just push to the branch in the fork, and merge the PR once they're happy with the result. If that's not the case, the maintainer can check out the PR branch, push to a new branch in their own repository, and create an new PR (linking to the original one in the description might make sense). See Modifying an inactive pull request locally for details. |
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The easiest option is if the person who opened the PR enabled the option that allows people with write access to the target repository to push to the PR branch. In that case the maintainer can just push to the branch in the fork, and merge the PR once they're happy with the result.
If that's not the case, the maintainer can check out the PR branch, push to a new branch in their own repository, and create an new PR (linking to the original one in the description might make sense). See Modifying an inactive pull request locally for details.