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pull request

pull request noun: a request to a repository maintainer to pull in and merge a proposed source code or other change.

Noun

pull request (plural pull requests)

  1. A request to a repository maintainer to pull in and merge a proposed source code or other change.
    Synonyms:
    merge request, PR

Verb

pull request (third-person singular simple present pull requests, present participle pull requesting, simple past and past participle pull requested)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To submit a pull request.
    • The GitHub Archive records any user activity (forking, pull requesting, commenting) on the social coding site GitHub. We queried the GitHub Archive for users who had specified a company name (non-empty string) in their GitHub profile[…]2014 June 30, Giovanni Cantone, Michele Marchesi, Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 15th International Conference, XP 2014, Rome, Italy, May 26-30, 2014, Proceedings...
    • We denote the estimated interests of a developer given a repository that he or she forked, watched, committed or pull-requested in GitHub as I(r). Similarly, we denote the estimated interests of a developer given a question that he[…]2017 August 31, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Afra Mashhadi, Taha Yasseri, Social Informatics: 9th International Conference, SocInfo 2017, Oxford, UK, September 13-15, 2017, Proceedings, Part II...

Synonyms of pull request

Forms of pull request

Noun
pluralpull requests
Verb
third-person singular presentpull requests
present participlepull requesting
past participlepull requested
pastpull requested

Questions about pull request

What does pull request mean?
Pull request means a request to a repository maintainer to pull in and merge a proposed source code or other change.
What part of speech is pull request?
Pull request can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of pull request?
The plural of pull request is pull requests.

Words near pull request in the dictionary

  1. pull over
  2. pull punches
  3. pull quote
  4. pull quotes
  5. pull rank
  6. pull request
  7. pull requested
  8. pull requesting
  9. pull requests
  10. pull round
  11. pull short

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pull request (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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