Oh yeah, there’s pull requests now
Last night I pushed out a feature Tom and I have been talking about since day one: pull requests. That’s the short walkthrough. You can use it to tell people…
Last night I pushed out a feature Tom and I have been talking about since day one: pull requests. That’s the short walkthrough.

You can use it to tell people who forked from you they need to pull, or they can use it to ask you to pull. It’s also great for letting someone else know you have a cool feature pushed to some non-master branch.
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