GitHub Code Review and Merge Workflows
Conduct code reviews, approve and request changes on pull requests, merge branches using different strategies, and clean up after merging.
Lab Overview
🛠Lab from the Platform Engineering Bootcamp. Used in Week 3. Bootcamp landing page: https://academy.tekanaid.com/bootcamps/platform-engineering-bootcamp Parent course(s):
- Week 3: Git, GitHub & CI/CD Fundamentals (slug: git-github-cicd-fundamentals)
This lab continues GitHub Collaboration by focusing on the review and merge side of the pull request lifecycle, all on your own TaskFlow fork.
You'll learn to:
- Open a real pull request for a documentation change on your TaskFlow fork
- Review pull requests and leave actionable feedback
- Leave comment reviews and understand that formal approvals require another reviewer
- Merge a pull request using the squash strategy and compare it with rebase and merge-commit
- Clean up merged branches and keep your fork tidy
Builds on GitHub Collaboration Part 1 and prepares you for CI/CD pipeline automation.
What You'll Learn
Conduct effective code reviews and leave actionable feedback on pull requests
Leave comment reviews on pull requests and understand that a formal approval or change request must come from another reviewer
Merge pull requests using squash, rebase, and merge commit strategies
Clean up merged branches to maintain a tidy repository
Prerequisites
git-fundamentals
git-branching-merging
github-collaboration
Technologies Covered
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