Creating and Approving Pull Requests in GitHub

In this post, we will go through creating and approving pull requests in GitHub. Our example will include multiple reviewers.

First, let’s go to a repo and change a file. We will update the version number of an assembly:

Change the version:

Now, we will create a new branch based off this change:

This takes us to the Pull Request. Let’s add some reviewers by clicking the link on the top right:

We see there are 2 users in this repository. Select them both:

The reviewers now show with orange circles next to their names:

Click Create Pull Request:

Now when the dev1 approver logs into GitHub and they go to Pull Requests->Review Requests, they see the PR:

Clicking on the file name takes them to the PR:

They will select Add Your Review at the top:

Here we can Comment, Approve and Request Changes:

On approving, we see 1 approver and 1 reviewer:

When the 2nd reviewer logs in, they will see the same thing:

On approving, they can decide to merge or close the PR. We will do neither:

When the original user who created the PR logs in, in Pull Requests->Created, they see the status:

Let’s merge this PR:

Confirm:

And they can now delete the branch:

With the option to restore the branch:

And the PR will move to Closed status:

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