After the conversation took place, changes were made and the peer review worked as expected, it's now time to finally merge the pull request.

If you don't have access to merge the pull request, you should see the following result:

On the other hand, owners or collaborators with write access can also merge pull requests. In this case, you should see the Merge pull request green button. Pressing this button will not merge it immediately, but you will have another chance to confirm:

The commit message of this merge is the one in bold, and the one below that can be edited is the extended commit message which by default grabs the pull request title. In the extended commit message you can reference issue numbers with a special meaning. Read more in the Tips and tricks section of this chapter to learn how to automatically close issues from pull requests.

Once merged, you can see the green icons turning into purple. This indicates a merged pull request.