October 16, 2018 - 5:46 pm GitHub today announced Suggested Changes: a new feature that promises to make it easier to implement and action changes in pull requests. Here’s how it works.

Last week, I opened the file on GitHub that had the typo, edited the file, and submitted my edit using GitHub’s “pull request” feature.

GitHub is great for pushing a big project forward, but not always great to get everyone on the same track. That’s why the company is introducing templates. The goal is to help everyone move in ...

GitHub has introduced draft pull requests to handle work-in-progress scenarios where you might want to open a PR or start a conversation with your teammates before your code is ready to be reviewed.

This feature integrates with GitHub’s protected branches, Berman said — if the reviewer requested changes to a pull request on a protected branch, the pull request can be blocked.

GitHub will roll out dependency review, a security assessment for pull requests, in the coming weeks to developers. SEE: Meet the hackers who earn millions for saving the web, one bug at a time ...

Using code owners, you can define specific teams or individuals that are responsible for a piece of code so that when you make a pull request the relevant people are informed automatically.