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Pull Request

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A Pull Request (PR for short) is a Github feature that you’d use when you want to merge your branch of code: it lets you tell other developers what you’re doing, request them to review it, and run tests and other automations. The name "Pull Request" is GitHub specific, but there are equivalent ideas in other products like GitLab and BitBucket.

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