Adding commits to another person's pull request on GitHub

Question

My project on GitHub has received a pull request. The pull request only partly fixes the issue that it\'s addressing. I\'ve pulled in the changes to a local branch and added som

Answer 1

As long as the original author has clicked the checkbox in the bottom right:

If that box is checked, then you can push back to the original branch without needing to add a remote by using:

git push git@github.com:user/repo local_branch_name:remote_branch_name

This is particularly useful if you're using a tool like hub where you can check out a pull request without needing to add a remote.