Pull Requests and Forges

Note	Draft placeholder — outline notes only; prose not yet written.

Points this section needs to cover (forge-neutral):

The fork → branch → pull request → review → merge loop
Opening a PR, iterating on review feedback, updating the PR branch
Merge strategies on forges: merge commit, squash, rebase
The gh CLI for creating and managing PRs from the terminal
How this relates to the branching workflows in Ch 3, Git Branching (GitHub Flow, trunk-based, stacked)

Keeping a fork in sync — fetching from the upstream repository while pushing to your fork (triangular workflows):

Pull request refs (refs/pull/*):

how forges advertise PR heads as refs; fetching a specific PR by ref; inspecting raw references with ls-remote

PR notifications and patch-formatted changes:

applying PR changes as email patches with git am (referenced from Appendix A, Git Commands)