How to push changes to other people's remote branch who raised PR in my repository?

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My repository: my-repo
Branch name: my-branch
User A: raised PR #123

Now, I checked out PR-123 using git fetch origin pull/123/head:userA-pr and checked out that new branch (userA-pr) to make some changes. Now, how can I push these changes back to PR #123?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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How can I push these changes back to PR #123?

You cannot, since the all idea of a PR is to contribute to a repo you are not the owner of, to which you cannot contribute (push) directly to.

If you need to contribute to another repo (including one from which a PR was done), you need to:

fork their own repo (which seems to be possible since 2016), make your branch in it, and make a PR.
or (in your case) directly make a PR to their fork, as Chris Dodd adds in the comments.

Or you simply make a common branch (here userA-pr) in your repo and invite the other contributor to make PRs against that branch: see "Forking a fork of my repo in GitHub"

edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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answered Apr 08 '17 at 00:16

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Note that if their repo is a fork of your repo (or a common upstream repo), there's no need to make another fork -- you can create a PR into their repo from any branch in your repo. – Chris Dodd Apr 08 '17 at 00:53
@ChrisDodd Thank you. I have included your comment in the answer for more visibility. – VonC Apr 08 '17 at 05:41

How to push changes to other people's remote branch who raised PR in my repository?

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