
See when a Pull Request is editable by maintainers
You can now see when a Pull Request author has enabled “Allow edits by maintainers,” so you can get started with your own edits faster. A green checkbox in the…
You can now see when a Pull Request author has enabled “Allow edits by maintainers,” so you can get started with your own edits faster. A green checkbox in the…
Today we are announcing the public beta of pull request merge queue for repos on GitHub Enterprise Cloud and open source organizations! 🎉 Merge queue helps increase velocity in software…
Code scanning can now be set up to never cause a pull request check failure. By default, any code scanning alerts with a security-severity of critical or high will cause…
A GraphQL mutation is now available for reverting a merged pull request: revertPullRequest. Like the revert action on the pull request page in the web, calling this API creates a…
What’s new? Starting today, Dependabot will pause automated pull request activity if you haven’t merged, closed, or otherwise interacted with Dependabot for over 90 days. To resume activity when you’re…
Dependabot helps you keep your dependencies up-to-date with Dependabot version updates. These pull requests are configured via a dependabot.yml file. Starting today, if you fork a repository with an existing…
On September 5, 2022, we reverted a recent change to our indirect pull request merge logic that was causing some pull requests to be incorrectly marked as merged. This could…
The author of the Git commit created when squash merging a pull request is now shown before merging. Previously, the commit author was only shown when merging with a merge…
Introducing “Edit File” within pull requests on GitHub for iOS! Make quick updates to existing pull requests to fix those pesky typos or add that missing method before merging. File…
When opening a pull request from a comparison that only includes one commit, GitHub defaults the title and description to the subject line and body of that commit’s message. Authors…
In May we shipped a setting for including the pull request title in the default commit message presented to users when squash merging a pull request. We just shipped more…
Code review on GitHub has evolved a lot since we introduced the ability to comment on an individual commit in 2008. Users today can propose a change using a pull…
Code scanning flags up potential security vulnerabilities in pull requests — well before code is merged and deployed. Starting today, such alerts will be more visible: they will appear as…
While you’re reviewing a pull request on mobile, you can now gather more context by expanding collapsed lines of code in a changed file. Read more about GitHub Mobile and…
To further reduce the risk of a user using Actions to merge a change into a protected branch that was not reviewed by another person, the organization setting to disallow…
GitHub Desktop 3.0 brings better integration with your GitHub Pull Requests. You can now receive real time notifications and review the status of your check runs for your pull request.
GitHub Desktop 3.0 is bringing a closer integration with GitHub pull request workflows. Real-time desktop notifications: Pull Request Reviews: You know right away when your PR is approved, you need…
When a new issue or pull request is created and not yet submitted, the assignees, reviewers, labels and projects will all be preserved upon page refresh.
Previously, GitHub’s web UI did not allow deleting a branch that was associated with an open pull request. Now you can delete such a branch from the UI. However, doing…
Today, we are announcing the beta of the new file tree experience for pull requests! Jump between files more quickly Understand the size and scope of the change before you…
The Update branch button on the pull request page lets you update your pull request’s branch with the latest changes from the base branch. This is useful for verifying your…
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