Brief instructions for how to modify and push to someone else's PR on github

push-to-someone-elses-pr.md

How to Push to Someone Else's Pull Request

Let's say contributor has submitted a pull request to your (author) project (repo). They have made changes on their branch feature and have proposed to merge this into origin/master, where

origin -> https://github.com/author/repo.git

Now say you would like to make commits to their PR and push those changes. First, add their fork as a remote called contributor,

> git remote add contributor https://github.com/contributor/repo.git 

such that,

> git remote -v
origin      https://github.com/author/repo.git (fetch)
origin      https://github.com/author/repo.git (push)
contributor   https://github.com/contributor/repo.git  (fetch) 
contributor   https://github.com/contributor/repo.git  (push)

Next, pull down their list of branches,

> git fetch contributor

and create a new branch (contributor-feature) from the branch that they have created the PR from,

> git checkout -b contributor-feature contributor/feature

Now make any changes you need to make on this branch. If you'd like to rebase this PR on top of the master branch of the primary repository,

> git rebase origin/master

Finally, push the changes back up to the PR by pushing to their branch,

git push contributor contributor-feature:feature

Note that if you did a rebase, you'll need to add the --force (or -f) flag after push. The author of the PR also may need to explicitly allow you to push to their branch.

Helpful Links

• Adding commits to someone else's pull request
• Official GH Docs on pushing to a PR
• How to Rebase a PR

It's an example only, if you use https or git protocol is up to you, git needs more setup anyway. Is better to use https in examples to not confuse newbies.

@silverqx
Not exactly: GitHub is not allowing https anymore if you want to push. Doesn't matter if you are newbie or not :)

remote: Support for password authentication was removed on August 13, 2021.
remote: Please see https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/getting-started-with-git/about-remote-repositories#cloning-with-https-urls for information on currently recommended modes of authentication.
fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com/pavelkomarov/repo.git/'

That's why I noticed it here because I struggled the same problem today so I thought that it might be worth to notify anyone who is following this "tutorial".

Really, I didn't know that, then in this case you are correct, should be updated.