.. _pull-requests:

Pull Requests

=============

Pagure uses the concept of pull requests to contribute changes from your fork

of a project back to the upstream project. To contribute a change to a project

you first open a pull request with original project. The project maintainer

then merges the pull request if they are satisfied with the changes you have

proposed.

.. _open-pull-request:

Open a Pull Request

-------------------

Before you can open a pull request, you need to complete the :ref:`first-steps`

and :ref:`create-fork` of the project you would like to contribute to. Once

you have a fork and you have pushed a `git branch <https: docs="" git-branch="" git-scm.com="">`_</https:>

containing one or more `commits <https: docs="" git-commit="" git-scm.com="">`_, you are</https:>

ready to contribute to the project. Navigate to the project's Pull Request page

and click on the ``File Pull Request`` button.

A dropdown menu should appear containing the git branches in your fork. Select the

branch containing your changes. You will be taken to a page where you can customize

the title of your Pull Request and its description. By default, this is populated

using your commit message.

Once you are satisfied with your title and description, click ``Create``.

Congratulations! It is now up to the project maintainer to accept your changes by

merging them.

.. _update-pull-request:

Updating Your Pull Request

--------------------------

It is likely that project maintainers will request changes to your proposed code

by commenting on your pull request. Don't be discouraged! This is an opportunity

to improve your contribution and for both reviewer and reviewee to become better

programmers.

Adding to your pull request is as simple as pushing new commits to the branch you

used to create the pull request. These will automatically be displayed in the

commit list for the pull request.

Rebasing

^^^^^^^^

You may encounter a situation where you want to include changes from the master

branch that were made after you created your pull request. You can do this by

`rebasing <https: docs="" git-rebase="" git-scm.com="">`_ your pull request branch and</https:>

pushing it to your remote fork.

.. _working-with-prs:

Working with Pull Requests

--------------------------

It's quite common to work with a pull request locally, either to build on top of

it or to test it. Currently, the best way to do this is by adding a remote to your

git repository and checking out the branch the pull request is based on. For example,

suppose user ``jcline`` has opened a pull request on the ``pagure`` project. The

pull request was created using the branch name ``doc-prs-locally``. You can work with

the commit or commits in this pull request by doing::

    $ git remote add -f jcline https://pagure.io/forks/jcline/pagure.git  # Add and fetch the remote

    $ git checkout jcline/doc-prs-locally

You will now be in a "detached HEAD" state. If you want to build off this pull

request, just create a local branch, add some commits, push it to your fork,

and open your own pull request::

    $ git checkout -b better-docs

    $ git commit -m "Improve this documentation"

    $ git push -u origin better-docs