pull request

noun

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

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Meanings

nounpull request (plural pull requests)

plural pull requests

  1. computingA request to a repository maintainer to pull in and merge a proposed source code or other change.

    Synonyms: merge request, PR

verbpull request (third-person singular simple present pull requests, present participle pull requesting, simple past and past participle pull requested)

present singular third person pull requests · participle present pull requesting · participle past pull requested · past pull requested

  1. intransitivetransitivecomputingTo submit a pull request.

    We denote the estimated interests of a developer given a repository that he or she forked, watched, committed or pull-requested in GitHub as I(r). Similarly, we denote the estimated interests of a developer given a question that he[…]

    2017 August 31, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Afra Mashhadi, Taha Yasseri, Social Informatics: 9th International Conference, SocInfo 2017, Oxford, UK, September 13-15, 2017, Proceedings, Part II, Springer, →ISBN, page 247
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    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[…]

    2014 June 30, Giovanni Cantone, Michele Marchesi, Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 15th International Conference, XP 2014, Rome, Italy, May 26-30, 2014, Proceedings, Springer, →ISBN, page 114

    GitHub Data Analysis and Its Recommender Systems In this subsection the authors present some related research works ... have studied different user behaviors on GitHub like forking, watching, commenting on issues, pull-requesting and[…]

    2018 February 2, Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, Optimizing Contemporary Application and Processes in Open Source Software, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 89

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA request to a repository maintainer to pull in and merge a proposed source code or other change.

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merge requestPR
Also see
merge request

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 合并請求
  • 合并請求 (hébìngqǐng qiú)(computing) source code change request
Finnish vetopyyntö
  • vetopyyntö(computing) source code change request
French demande de fusion
  • demande de fusion(computing) source code change request
German Pull-Anforderung
  • Pull-Anforderung(computing) source code change request
Russian запрос на принятие
  • запрос на принятие (zapros na prinjatije)(computing) source code change request
Cite this entry
APA

pull request. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pull%20request

MLA

“pull request.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pull%20request. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pull request,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pull%20request.

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