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Making Your First Pull Request

A step-by-step walkthrough covering forking, cloning, feature branches, and responding to code review feedback.

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Lesson metadata

Slug making-good-pull-requests
Pathway Getting Started with Open Source
Subtopic Version Control Basics
Skill Level Beginner
OSS Role(s) Contributor, Maintainer
Resource Type tutorial
Time Required 5m
Author Intersect Team, intersect@training.org
License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords Git, pull requests, version control, collaboration
Language(s) en

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Audience Developers, PhD Students, Open Source Contributors
Competency Required Git, version control
Creative Work Status Active
Date Created 2023-05-15
Date Modified 2023-07-20
Date Published 2023-07-20
Depends On social-coding-and-open-source-collaboration
Domain General Open Source
Has Part http://good-pr-guide.io
Is Part Of Open Source Collaboration Series
Learning Objectives After this lesson, the learner should be able to: - Execute the complete pull request lifecycle from fork to merge. - Create a dedicated feature branch for a contribution. - Respond professionally to code review feedback.
Mentions GitHub Pull Requests, https://github.com/pull-requests, GitHub's pull request feature
Ospo Relevance High
Prerequisite Notes Intro to Git
Sorting Id 8
Teaches The student will be able to create clear and well-structured pull requests for software projects.
Topic Git/Beg. VCS, Contributing
Version 1.2.0

Introduction to Git

Beginner • Version Control Basics