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

Not unless barryceelen gives you push access to his fork. You'll have to close his pull request and open a new one from your branch that includes his commits.

Not being able to do what you want to do is annoying. To make better use of GitHub flow, I'd suggest asking forkers to open issues separately from their pull requests that solve them, meaning you can keep the initial conversation flow and have it closed by whatever pull request you decide as the best.