3-open-a-pull-request

Step 3: Open a pull request

Nice work making that commit! :sparkles:

Now that you have made a change to the project and created a commit, it’s time to share your proposed change through a pull request!

What is a pull request?: Collaboration happens on a pull request. The pull request shows the changes in your branch to other people and allows people to accept, reject, or suggest additional changes to your branch. In a side by side comparison, this pull request is going to keep the changes you just made on your branch and propose applying them to the main project branch. For more information about pull requests, see "About pull requests".

:keyboard: Activity: Create a pull request

You may have noticed after your commit that a message displayed indicating your recent push to your branch and providing a button that says Compare & pull request.

To create a pull request automatically, click Compare & pull request button, and then skip to step 5 below. Alternately, you practice creating it manually using the first 4 steps.

1. In the header menu of your repository, click the Pull requests tab .

2. Click the New pull request button.

3. Select the following branches using the dropdown menus.

   • base: main
   • compare: my-first-branch

   

4. Click Create pull request.

5. Enter a title for your pull request. By default, the title will automatically be the name of your branch. For this exercise, let's edit the field to say Add my first file.

6. The next field helps you provide a description of the changes you made. Please enter a short description of what you’ve accomplished so far. As a reminder, you have: created a new branch, created a file, and made a commit.

   

7. Click Create pull request.

8. Now that you've started a place to collaborate, Mona should already be busy checking your work. Give her a moment and keep watch in the comments. You will see her respond with progress info and the next lesson.