Technical reviews are a cornerstone of high quality products. That’s why we always review documents, implementation processes and tests as part of our software development process. We also invite coders around the world to contribute to the software we share with the community. Check out our Open Source repositories.
But sometimes you might find yourself in a situation where a project member wants to make a complete review of the contents of a GitHub repository. To do this, Github offers built-in review functions for pull requests. GitHub displays the contents of all changes between two branches that you can comment on – the branch that you want to merge and the branch that you merge it into.
But to do a full review, you need to see all the changes, right from the start, in one pull request. Sound complicated? Don’t worry. Here’s our step-by-step guide:
Follow the steps below to create a full pull request review:
Invite reviewers
You should work in the changes based on your reviewers' findings directly on the review branch. That way reviewers can see the improvements. And conveniently, GitHub automatically marks previous findings as obsolete where you made changes.
When you finish the review, simply merge the review branch back to your regular integration branch. Depending on your branching strategy it’s typically called either “develop” or “master”.
And that’s it.
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