A GitHub project is an adaptable spreadsheet, task board, and road map that integrates with your issues and pull requests on GitHub to help you plan and track your work effectively.

We looked at how you can complete all the essential GitHub tasks, including creating local and remote repositories, submitting pull requests, and merging multiple branches.

The feature is a direct response to user requests, and is something GitHub says will be the first of many improvements to Issues and Pull Requests.

GitHub has introduced draft pull requests to handle work-in-progress scenarios where you might want to open a PR or start a conversation with your teammates before your code is ready to be reviewed.

This feature integrates with GitHub’s protected branches, Berman said — if the reviewer requested changes to a pull request on a protected branch, the pull request can be blocked.

A pull request is GitHub speak for a suggested code fix, or patch. The irony is that Torvalds invented Git, the software at the heart of the GitHub website.

CodeMill is bringing monetization to GitHub. By letting developers make cash of of pull requests, it's making Github a freelance marketplace.

GitHub will roll out dependency review, a security assessment for pull requests, in the coming weeks to developers. SEE: Meet the hackers who earn millions for saving the web, one bug at a time ...