Find a Pull Request on Github where a commit was originally created

Question

Pull Requests are great for understanding the larger thinking around a change or set of changes made to a repo. Reading pull requests are a great way to quickly \"grok\" a p

Answer 1

Since Oct. 13, 2014, this should be straightforward:

For example:

You can see for the file hakimel/reveal.js/plugin/markdown/markdown.js, my contribution now comes with a reference to the PR #734 it originated.

This comes from Linking merged pull requests from commits:

We've been including the containing branches and tags on commit pages to give you more context around changes. Now, commits in a repository's default branch will also show you the pull request that introduced them.

In the pull request, you can see the discussion around why the commit was introduced, and get a clearer picture of the reason for the change.

As always, if you know the commit SHA, you can skip the commit page and search for the pull request directly.