Documentation -- added instructions on working with pull requests

Since non-core contributors are asked to review patches, instructions
on working with pull requests were added to the Working with Git and
GitHub page (based on the existing instructions in the core
committers page).
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existing committer privately. Public requests for commit access are potential
flame-war starters, and will simply be ignored.
.. _handling-pull-requests:
Handling pull requests
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makes squashing easier.
After review
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It is unusual to get any non-trivial amount of code into core without changes
requested by reviewers. In this case, it is often a good idea to add the
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git rebase -i HEAD~2
Squash the second commit into the first. Write a commit message along the lines of::
Squash the second commit into the first. Write a commit message along the lines
of::
Made changes asked in review by <reviewer>
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Your pull request should now contain the new commit too.
Note that the committer is likely to squash the review commit into the previous commit
when committing the code.
Note that the committer is likely to squash the review commit into the previous
commit when committing the code.
Working on a patch
------------------
One of the ways that developers can contribute to Django is by reviewing
patches. Those patches will typically exist as pull requests on GitHub and
can be easily integrated into your local repository::
git checkout -b pull_xxxxx upstream/master
curl https://github.com/django/django/pull/xxxxx.patch | git am
This will create a new branch and then apply the changes from the pull request
to it. At this point you can run the tests or do anything else you need to
do to investigate the quality of the patch.
For more detail on working with pull requests see the
:ref:`guidelines for committers <handling-pull-requests>`.
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