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GitHub Essentials - Second Edition

By : Achilleas Pipinellis
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GitHub Essentials - Second Edition

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By: Achilleas Pipinellis

Overview of this book

Whether you are an experienced developer or a novice, learning to work with Version Control Systems is a must in the software development world. Git is the most popular tool for that purpose, and GitHub was built around it, leveraging its powers by bringing it to the web. Starting with the basics of creating a repository, you will then learn how to manage the issue tracker, the place where discussions about your project take place. Continuing our journey, we will explore how to use the wiki and write rich documentation that will accompany your project. You will also master organization/team management and some of the features that made GitHub so well known, including pull requests. Next, we will focus on creating simple web pages hosted on GitHub and lastly, we will explore the settings that are configurable for a user and a repository.
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Merging the pull request

After the conversation took place, changes were made, and the peer review worked as expected, so 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. From the arrow next to it, you can optionally choose the merge method before merging it. There are three options, with the default one being the creation of a merge commit. Pick the one you want and hit merge:

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...