First Pull Request

How to propose changes to open-source software using GitHub pull requests

Table of contents

• 1. What you will do
• 2. Repositories
• 3. The framework
• 4. YAML
• 5. Issues
• 6. Edits
• 7. Commits
• 8. Forks
• 9. Pull requests
• 10. Merges
• 11. Actions
• 12. The end

About

This guide was prepared by Ben Welsh and Simon Willison for an online tutorial in December 2022. Some of the copy was written with the assistance of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. A video recording of the class is available on YouTube.