{"id":25197,"date":"2016-02-23T09:56:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T07:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=25197"},"modified":"2016-02-23T09:56:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T07:56:04","slug":"github-issue-and-pull-request-templates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/02\/23\/github-issue-and-pull-request-templates\/","title":{"rendered":"GitHub : Issue and Pull Request templates"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\">GitHub<\/a> is working hard on extending the functionality of their web service. \u00a0They&#8217;ve released a much needed feature recently &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/blog\/2111-issue-and-pull-request-templates\">templates for new issues and pull requests<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/templates.png?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25198\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"25198\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/02\/23\/github-issue-and-pull-request-templates\/templates\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/templates.png?fit=2454%2C1488&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2454,1488\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"templates\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/templates.png?fit=660%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-25198\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/templates-500x303.png?resize=500%2C303&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"templates\" width=\"500\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/templates.png?resize=500%2C303&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/templates.png?resize=768%2C466&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/templates.png?resize=1024%2C621&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/templates.png?w=1320 1320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/templates.png?w=1980 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I like the elegant implementation &#8211; they basically just grab the <em>ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md<\/em>\u00a0and <em>PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md<\/em> files from the root of your project and stick them into the editor. \u00a0And if you are concerned about all the noise in your project&#8217;s root folder, they now also support <em>.github\/<\/em> folder.<\/p>\n<p>One other feature released recently that you might have missed is <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/blog\/2105-upload-files-to-your-repositories\">direct upload of files into the repository<\/a> &#8211; no need for fancy git clients and such. \u00a0This makes things so much simpler for the less technical folk, like designers and project managers.<\/p>\n<p>Very nice!<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>GitHub is working hard on extending the functionality of their web service. \u00a0They&#8217;ve released a much needed feature recently &#8211; templates for new issues and pull requests. 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