GitHub : Issue and Pull Request templates

GitHub is working hard on extending the functionality of their web service.  They’ve released a much needed feature recently – templates for new issues and pull requests.

I like the elegant implementation – they basically just grab the ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md and PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md files from the root of your project and stick them into the editor.  And if you are concerned about all the noise in your project’s root folder, they now also support .github/ folder.

One other feature released recently that you might have missed is direct upload of files into the repository – no need for fancy git clients and such.  This makes things so much simpler for the less technical folk, like designers and project managers.

Very nice!