View long-running Pull Requests
You can now view and sort long-running Pull Requests from your repository’s Pull Request page. When a feature or a bugfix goes on for months but never ships nor dies,…
You can now view and sort long-running Pull Requests from your repository’s Pull Request page. When a feature or a bugfix goes on for months but never ships nor dies,…
We recently started letting you tidy up your Pull Requests. What happens when someone deletes a branch that is still needed? Starting today, you can restore any head branch of…
At GitHub, we love to use Pull Requests all day, every day. The only trouble is that we end up with a lot of defunct branches after Pull Requests have…
We recently shipped a new About section. It has all sorts of stuff like high resolution logos, pictures of the GitHub team, a little bit about our story, recent press…
Today, we’re rolling out a new feature that makes Pull Requests easier to create: After pushing a branch to GitHub, you (and only you) will see that branch at the…
Since the new pull requests shipped just over a year ago, we have been sending out pretty sparse emails when someone created a new pull request on one of your…
That’s right. They’re here. Now you can comment directly on individual lines in the Diff attached to any Pull Request. These things are smart. They keep their proper position, even…
We just rolled out a slightly redesigned Pull Request discussion view. You can check it out on any pull request like this one on rack/rack. This refresh opens up the…
While you’re waiting for the long anticipated MergeButton™, I wanted to take a moment to highlight a few bits of documentation we have for pull requests. If you have any…
GitHub launched with a simple pull request system on day one. You’ve used it to send 200 thousand pull requests in just over two years. Now we’re taking it to…
We just rolled out a new feature that allows you to activate an auto-response to any pull requests you receive. Here’s a few use cases that make this a pretty…
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…
GitHub is updating how GitHub Actions’ pull_request_target and environment branch protection rules are evaluated for pull-request-related events. These changes will take effect on 12/8/2025. They aim to reduce security critical…
Starting today, in Actions workflows, the pull_request_target trigger is now supported for repository rulesets that require a successful workflow run. This is in addition to pull_request and merge_group, making pull_request_target…
With GitHub Copilot coding agent, developers can tackle tech debt, fix bugs, and even implement new features at scale. Simply delegate tasks to Copilot, and let it work in the…
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A CODEOWNERS file defines the users or teams responsible for different parts of your repository, and helps ensure the right people are included in pull request reviews. We’ve shipped some…
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