Welcome to the Pull Requests Category! 🔀

[ghostinhershell]

Welcome all to the Pull Requests Category! 🔀

This is your space to talk all things Pull Requests — whether you’re creating your first one, reviewing changes in a team, or sharing ways to make the process smoother and more effective.

Use this category to:

• Ask how-to questions about creating, reviewing, and managing pull requests.
• Share tips, workflows, and tools that improve PR quality and collaboration.
• Give feedback on GitHub’s pull request features.
• Join discussions about PR best practices and real-world examples.

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✅ What Belongs in This Category

• Questions about how PRs work or specific PR features on GitHub.
• Feedback on the PR review experience (e.g., Files Changed tab, review tools).
• Tips, guides, or case studies for making effective PRs.
• PR-related automation, integrations, or GitHub Actions.
• Community challenges and showcases (e.g., “smallest but mightiest PRs”).

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🚫 What Doesn’t Belong Here

• Questions about unrelated GitHub features (try a more relevant category).
• General Git/GitHub CLI help that’s not tied to PRs.
• Reports of service outages — check the status resources below first.

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📡 Before You Post: Check GitHub Status

If you’re having trouble opening, reviewing, or merging a pull request, there might be a service incident.
Before creating a new discussion about the issue:

1. Check the GitHub Status page → status.github.com for real-time updates on incidents or degraded performance.
2. Look in the Announcements category → During outages, an official announcement discussion will be posted there with details and ongoing updates.

If there’s an active incident, follow those updates instead of opening a new post in the Pull Requests category.

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🐞 How to Write a Helpful Bug Report

If you’ve confirmed there’s no active incident but think you’ve found a bug:

1. Describe the problem clearly — what did you expect to happen, and what actually happened?
2. Include steps to reproduce — list the exact actions someone can take to see the issue themselves.
3. Add relevant details — browser and OS, repo visibility (public/private), screenshots, and error messages.
4. Link the PR — if possible, include a link to the pull request showing the problem (public repos only).

The more detail you share, the easier it is for others (including GitHub staff) to help.

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🗨 How to Get the Most Out of This Category

• Use clear, descriptive titles for your posts.
• Keep each discussion focused on one question or topic.
• Tag other members if you’re building on their earlier comment.
• Bookmark this category so you can check back for replies and new posts.

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💡 Pro tip: If you have an idea for a future discussion or challenge, suggest it in the comments — we’re always looking for new ways to collaborate and learn together.

[PRIYAtechky]

I’ve found that breaking larger updates into smaller PRs makes a big difference. It keeps reviews focused, easier to follow, and usually gets merged faster. 🚀

[ghostinhershell]

Great tip @PRIYAtechky! Thanks for sharing!

[PRIYAtechky]

How can I get the Galaxy Brain badge? Can you share the steps with me?

[BenjaminAtExpectedIT]

Two suggestions on improving the Pull Request review experience:

First One: When giving feedback as part of a PR review there is a counter indicating how many comments one has added in the top right corner. In case the PR is large and includes many files I found it hard to get back to a previous comment, where I wanted to add something. As I mark files as viewed I didn't found a faster way than opening each file section and scrolling back. There it would be helpful to have a small indicator for the files one has commented on. Or maybe more fancy even an overview of the comments one added in the dropdown where one can complete a review. But the first, simpler suggestion would already be very helpful.

Second One: In case someone requested a review and the PR is merged and closed during one's own vacation, one can still mark the files as viewed and comment on it, but on the pull requests overview page it keeps the yellow dot saying review requested. Maybe it's possible to improve there to be able to still approve after merges? Just to show my colleagues that I've seen the changes. It could then e.g. show on the pull requests overview page approved after merge.

Thank you very much!

[muspriandi]

One thing that helps my pull requests is writing the PR description, it keeps my goal clear and makes it easier for reviewers to understand the changes, sometimes I also attach some picture too.

I used AI to review PRs automatically before merge, the AI could check for bugs, missing tests, or style issues and make small suggestions early. That would save reviewers time and make pull requests faster and more consistent. 👍