Modify a GitHub pull request 100% online, without having to install Git

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GitHub allows me to send a pull request entirely online. This is very useful to casually fix typos or grammar errors or broken URLs in a README, for instance.

While such pull requests most often get merged without any problem, some other times the maintainer asks me to modify something slightly before they merge.

In such a case, I would have to pull the entire repository, get my pull request branch, and throw a bunch of git commands. This is quite bothersome for changing just a few characters of text.

Is there a way to modify my pull request online?

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First, look at the URL of your pull request, it will be like:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/1234

1) On the Github page showing your repositories, find your clone of that repository, if will be something like https://github.com/nic/linux and click it.

2) By default the branch is set to master, change it to patch-1 like this:

3) Now you can edit and commit like you want. All of your commits will be automatically made a part of the existing pull request.

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On the sidebar, under Notifications, you will be able to toggle your subscription to the thread.

You can also now manage notification settings at the individual issue or pull request level. This lets you manually subscribe to any issue without commenting, or unsubscribe from issues no longer relevant to your interests:

See the blog post, "Mention @somebody. They're notified." for details.

GitHub – Delete Pull Request Status Checks

The best solution I've been able to come up with is to create a new status on the same context as successful. This way I can remove the build URL from the status checks and the PRs don't show up as failing (as they were in my case).

To do this I iterated through all the most recent SHAs of my Pull Requests and made the following API call using curl:

curl --user "username" --data @- https://api.github.com/repos/:owner/:repo/commits/:sha
{
  "state": "success",
  "description": "The build succeeded!",
  "context": "default"
}

It doesn't completely erase the build history (so it can still be found using the API), but on the pull request pages everything looks like business as usual.

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GitHub – Delete Pull Request Status Checks

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