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Incorporating feedback in your pull request

When reviewers suggest changes in a pull request, you can automatically incorporate the changes into the pull request or open an issue to track out-of-scope suggestions.

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Applying suggested changes

Other people can suggest specific changes to your pull request. You can apply these suggested changes directly in a pull request if you have write access to the repository. If the pull request was created from a fork and the author allowed edits from maintainers, you can also apply suggested changes if you have write access to the upstream repository. For more information, see Commenting on a pull request and Allowing changes to a pull request branch created from a fork.

To quickly incorporate more than one suggested change into a single commit, you can also apply suggested changes as a batch. Applying one suggested change or a batch of suggested changes creates a single commit on the compare branch of the pull request.

Each person who suggested a change included in the commit will be a co-author of the commit. The person who applies the suggested changes will be a co-author and the committer of the commit. For more information about the term committer in Git, see Git Basics - Viewing the Commit History from the Pro Git book site.

  1. Under your repository name, click Pull requests.

    Screenshot of the main page of a repository. In the horizontal navigation bar, a tab, labeled "Pull requests," is outlined in dark orange.

  2. In the list of pull requests, click the pull request you'd like to apply a suggested change to.

  3. Navigate to the first suggested change you'd like to apply.

    • To apply the change in its own commit, click Commit suggestion.

      Screenshot of a review comment with a suggestion. The "Commit suggestion" option is outlined in dark orange.

    • To add the suggestion to a batch of changes, click Add suggestion to batch. Continue to add the suggested changes you want to include in a single commit. When you've finished adding suggested changes, click Commit suggestions.

      Screenshot of a review comment with a suggestion. The "Add suggestion to batch" option is outlined in dark orange.

  4. In the commit message field, type a short, meaningful commit message that describes the change you made to the file or files.

  5. Click Commit changes.

Re-requesting a review

You can re-request a review, for example, after you've made substantial changes to your pull request. To request a fresh review from a reviewer, in the sidebar of the Conversation tab, click the icon.

Opening an issue for an out-of-scope suggestion

If someone suggests changes to your pull request and the changes are out of the pull request's scope, you can open a new issue to track the feedback. For more information, see Creating an issue.

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