Pull requests

Learn how to use pull requests to suggest changes to a project, receive suggested changes to your own projects, and address issues in pull requests, such as merge conflicts.

Overview

Guides

Changing a commit message

If a commit message contains unclear, incorrect, or sensitive information, you can amend it locally and push a new commit with a new message to GitHub. You can also change a commit message to add missing information.

Resolving a merge conflict using the command line

You can resolve merge conflicts using the command line and a text editor.

Creating and deleting branches within your repository

You can create or delete branches directly on GitHub.

Creating a pull request

Create a pull request to propose and collaborate on changes to a repository. These changes are proposed in a branch, which ensures that the default branch only contains finished and approved work.