Ben Balter 12/8/2015

The six types of pull requests you see on GitHub

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This article categorizes six distinct types of pull requests commonly seen on GitHub, explaining their purposes and workflows. It covers 'Just a heads up' for trivial changes, 'Sanity check' for minor reviews, 'Draft pull requests' for WIP, 'Early feedback' for conceptual approval, 'Line-by-line review' for final shipping, and 'Pull request to a pull request' for collaborative open-source contributions.

The six types of pull requests you see on GitHub

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