Review, Revise, Collaborate

Before your contribution is merged (pulled) into the origin repository, someone will review it to confirm that it does what you think it does, that it does something the project needs, and that it conforms to all project styleguides and standards. They probably will have questions, feedback, and suggestions about your contribution. Collaborate with them to get your contribution into an acceptable state. When you apply their feedback, use atomic commits to your feature branch. As you push these changes, they automatically appear on the pull request. This means you won’t have to do anything special once you’ve applied all of the feedback and suggestions. Your contribution can simply be merged into the origin repository. ...

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