Find a Pull Request on GitHub where a commit was originally created

Pull Requests are great for understanding the larger thinking around a change or set of changes made to a repo. Reading pull requests are a great way to quickly “grok” a project as, instead of small atomic changes to the source, you get larger groupings of logical changes. Analogous to organizing the lines in your … Read more

GitHub pull request showing commits that are already in target branch

I’m trying to review a pull request on GitHub to a branch that isn’t master. The target branch was behind master and the pull request showed commits from master, so I merged master and pushed it to GitHub, but the commits and diff for them still appear in the pull request after refreshing. I’ve doubled … Read more