GitHub Pull Requests from Start to Finish
Is your organization using GitHub pull requests? Do you need to know how to make them work for you and your team? This course will showcase the common scenarios of pull requests to provide code reviews and increase code quality.
What you'll learn
Pull Requests can sound intimidating at first, especially when you must pair them with git commits, pulls and pushes. In this course, GitHub Pull Requests from Start to Finish, you will learn the process of bringing in code from a Git repository in an organized fashion, allowing software development teams to be able to track and review each other's work before deploying to production. First, you will create some pull requests and get approvals. Next, you will discover how to review code with and for others. Finally, you will explore common scenarios you’ll encounter when using pull requests. When you’re finished with this course, you will know how and why pull requests can lead to a more stable, better written, and useful codebase.
Table of contents
- Overview 2m
- What Is a Pull Request? 5m
- Tools You Need for Pull Requests 1m
- Administration 6m
- The Pull Request from Start to Finish 2m
- Create a Branch 2m
- Add and Commit Code 1m
- Open up a Pull Request 2m
- Describe the Pull Request 1m
- Add a Reviewer and Assignee 2m
- View the Pull Request 1m
- Review a Pull Request 2m
- Approve and Merge 2m
- Summary 1m
About the author
Lisa has worked in a software development for over a decade in web development, virtual reality, and video games. Armed with a degree in computer science and design, she has the perfect combination to bring digital works of art to life. She founded the game development company Intropy Games to make super cute games that can tug on your heartstrings. With multiple awards under her belt, she most recently was awarded for excellence in the Oculus Launch Pad in Virtual Reality.