GitHub today announced a bunch of new features at its virtual GitHub Universe conference including dark mode, auto-merge pull requests, and Enterprise Server 3.0. In the past couple of years ...

When you create a pull request, GitHub will highlight all the differences (referred to as “diffs”) between these branches, so you can preview the finished result before going ahead with the merge.

Linus Torvalds is not at all a fan of GitHub merges as he revealed recently in a response to a pull request. Torvalds thinks GitHub is mostly "fine", "but merges is not one of those things".

GitHub has introduced draft pull requests to handle work-in-progress scenarios where you might want to open a PR or start a conversation with your teammates before your code is ready to be reviewed.

Design & Dev GitHub Desktop 1.5 makes it easy to resolve frustrating merge conflicts Merge conflict resolution just got a whole of a lot easier.