What’s the Point of Pull Requests Anyway?

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If you are a beginner in the world of Git and hosted Git platforms (such as GitHub or GitLab), then you’ve probably never heard the term “pull request” or “merge request” before. You also might not understand what they are or the value they bring to your team.

Sidenote: I’ll be using the term “pull request in this article, but it’s effectively the same as a “merge request” in GitLab.