After you add changes to a topic branch or fork, you can open a pull request to ask your collaborators or the repository administrator to review your changes before merging them into the project.
About branches
Branches are used to propose changes to GitHub Enterprise projects.
Creating and deleting branches within your repository
Pull requests let you tell others about changes you've pushed to a repository on GitHub Enterprise. Once a pull request is opened, you can discuss and review the potential changes with collaborators and add follow-up commits before the changes are merged into the repository.
About comparing branches in pull requests
Pull requests display diffs to compare the changes you made in your topic branch against the base branch that you want to merge your changes into.
Creating a pull request
Create a pull request to propose and collaborate on changes to a repository. These changes are proposed in a branch, which ensures that the master branch only contains finished and approved work.
Creating a pull request from a fork
If you've forked a repository and made changes to the fork, you can ask that the upstream repository accept your changes by creating a pull request.
Changing the base branch of a pull request
After a pull request is opened, you can change the base branch to compare the changes in the pull request against a different branch.
