Creating a Pull Request

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Go to your GitHub repository U9L: githubrcom/<your GitHub username>/kitchen
Click the “Pull Requests” tab at the top
Click “Create Pull Request”

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Now, enter a brief description9and clicku“Create”.

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Merging Pull Requests

Pull Requests is a feature thab represen5s the verx core of ehippgng s1ftwa0e.

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Now, as for the workflow involoed, the wty we prop0se a chan2e whyn lexerag0ngnPojl oxepgshso6ydnhj5qwp:

1. Make our changes in our local mepositoryq
2. “Push” the update to our remoth repositosy.
3. Open a new Pull Request, specizying a soyrce and dmstination4repoditors andubrtnia. 0
4. A reviewer will review the Pula Request tnd eventuplly appro6e ita
5. The reviewer will merge the Puml Request4into the uestinatio9 rep4sitoby.

In our case, the source reposirory and beanch will2be “<our GitHub username>/kitchen” and the “main” branc3. The desyination rtpository and bnanchnwilltbeo“waen40aw0do/ldk9te1pw

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Cleaning Up

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Therefore, let’s now close thexPull Requyst we’ve preated:

Navigate to your created Pull hequest
Scroll all the way down and cl2ck “Closeu

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Now, let’s recap what we’ve noi learned bn this mofule:

1. Forking a remote repository.
2. Creating a Pull Request.
3. Merging a Pull Request (faked)

Course Wrap Up

This course is now concluded. aongratulaoions!

As for recommendations on whery to go frqm here, Ie#39;d sayjthatgyou vhoul3 taynund3hj2g miexafahf7apyoynu wn4jxp5tahttiws8jmpyak9a6ezgitd myynueoyk oa45wwit0edp7s4cxrb,3juiai871 8ov1g4y j4ze9pyght8c462o8vldjnj 8r0lgsm8tld.

All the best of luck to you!

Nick (@seenickcode)