Merge Branches into Master Branch in GitHub using Pull Requests

Open the Organization repository on GitHub and switch to the branch that you want to merge into master.

Click New Pull Request to create a pull request.

Enter brief details about the pull request and click Create pull request. You can scroll down and see a diff of the files that were changed as well as the commits.

To accept the pull request, click the Pull Requests tab to see a summary of pending pull requests. If you are happy with the changes, click Merge Pull request to accept the pull request and perform the merge. You can add in a comment if you want.

Once you click Merge Pull request, you will see a button Confirm merge. Click the drop-down next to the button so you can select a merge option: Squash merge creates a single commit from all changes, and Merge commit leaves all the commits as is.

If the merge was successful, you’ll see a note about it and you can proceed with deleting the branch if required.

Issues are automatically closed as well and the milestone is complete.

GitHub will automatically close an issue if your commit message includes certain keywords once this change is merged into the master branch.

Ensure your workspace in SAP Web IDE has fetched these latest changes.

1. Open the Git pane and switch to the master branch.

   

2. Click Pull to pull in the changes. Enter your GitHub account credentials and press OK.

   

3. Open the Git History pane to see that the branching, changes and pull request were successful.