pull request

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pull request

noun pull requests

A request to a repository maintainer to pull in and merge a proposed source code or other change.
Similar: merge request, PR

verb pull requests · pull requesting · pull requested

intransitive, transitive To submit a pull request. The GitHub Archive records any user activity (forking, pull requesting, commenting) on the social coding site GitHub. We queried the GitHub Archive for users who had specified a company name (non-empty string) in their GitHub profile[…]

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noun (computing) source code change request

中文	合并請求 hébìngqǐng qiú
Français	demande de fusion
Deutsch	Pull-Anforderung
Русский	запрос на принятие zapros na prinjatije

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@misc{pull_request_2026,
  title = {pull request},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pull%20request},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}