Pull Request

• Pull request is a proposal of potential changes
• Why this name?
• It's named pull request because it's like you are asking the other collaborators to pull your feature and avaliate it, a request to pull your changes from the remote branch and check it out and give feedbacks
• Pull request is also when you want a main repository to pull the branch from your fork repository
• Pull request is a environment for discussion, after the discussion the feature branch can be merged into master or not
• Existing pull request is automatically updated when new commits are pushed to remote

• Pull requests can only be created in Github/GItlab website!

• PR naming: [branch]: Description of the feature

• Merge pull request types
• Create a merge commit: just like a conventional merge (3-way), all the history of commits are preserved and the commit will have 2 parents (from base and feature branches)
• Squash and merge
• Rebase and merge

Branch protection rules

• Protected branch is a branch that has some rules, for example to require PR to have certain quantity of approves before merging will be allowed
• It's interesting to make rules for the master branch and make it protected (Settings/Branches)
• Rules
• Require pull request reviews before merging
• Require status checks to pass before merging
• Require signed commits
• Require linear history
• Include administrators
• Allow force pushes
• Allow deletions