2 of our books define this term — and their definitions are worth reading side by side.
pull requests are the mechanism that lets engineers tell others about changes they have pushed to a repository on GitHub.
— The DevOps Handbook, in “18: Create Review and Coordination Processes to Increase Quality of Our Current Work”, Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis & Nicole Forsgren
The developer submits a petition to change the trunk branch, otherwise known as a pull request
— How to Use GitOps, in the text, Chris Hill, Tom Limoncelli, Dr. Gail Murphy, Cornelia Davis & Dwayne Holmes
See also agile development · canary release pattern · continuous delivery · continuous integration · dark launching · definition of done
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