Quick summary
Approving a pull request in GitHub requires navigating to the correct repository, reviewing the Files changed, and submitting a formal review decision. This process ensures code quality by allowing reviewers to approve, comment on, or request changes before a PR is merged.
Steps
- Navigate to the repository that contains the pull request you want to approve.
- Click on the Pull requests tab at the top of the repository's page.
- Select the pull request you want to review from the list.
- Click on Files changed to view the code differences.
- Click Review changes on the right side if you want to leave comments before approving.
- Select Comment if you are only leaving notes without a formal decision.
- Select Approve and add an optional comment if needed.
- Select Request changes if modifications are required before the PR can be merged.
- Click Submit review to finalize your approval.
