# Change Pull Request to Merge Request

**URL:** <https://forum.gitea.com/t/change-pull-request-to-merge-request/2856>\
**Category:** Gitea Usages\
**Created:** [January 12, 2021, 12:26pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/change-pull-request-to-merge-request/2856 "2021-01-12T12:26:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Zesko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Zesko](https://forum.gitea.com/u/Zesko)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 12:26pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/change-pull-request-to-merge-request/2856/1 "2021-01-12T12:26:04Z")

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Hello, I am newbie.

I want to ask that the word `Pull request` should be changed to `Merge request` .

`Pull request` confused us as beginners that it is not like `Merge request`.  
`Merge request` sounds good. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Zesko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Zesko](https://forum.gitea.com/u/Zesko)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 12:28pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/change-pull-request-to-merge-request/2856/2 "2021-01-12T12:28:35Z")

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Who agrees with that? 🙂

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**Author:** ![kpfleming](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/cc9497/32.png) [@kpfleming](https://forum.gitea.com/u/kpfleming)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 11:48am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/change-pull-request-to-merge-request/2856/3 "2021-01-13T11:48:31Z")

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The “Pull Request” name, while not as accurate, is far more common because it is what GItHub uses. As a result most guides on the Internet which teach people how to contribute to projects use that term.

In spite of that, I’d certainly appreciate an option in Gitea to select which name should be used.

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**Author:** ![lunny](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/lunny/32/4701_2.png) [@lunny](https://forum.gitea.com/u/lunny)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/change-pull-request-to-merge-request/2856/4 "2021-01-13T15:48:55Z")

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You can change the language file yourself before Gitea officially accept the proposal.

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**Author:** ![archi\_dave](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/archi_dave/32/1040_2.png) [@archi\_dave](https://forum.gitea.com/u/archi_dave)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2021, 1:48pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/change-pull-request-to-merge-request/2856/5 "2021-01-14T13:48:43Z")

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I would disagree. A PR is a request for the maintainer of the project to run `git pull` on your branch to receive your proposed changes, then review the code, possibility request some modifications, then finally run `git merge` to merge your branch into `master` once they are happy. As a pull request indicates the start of this process, not the end (which is the merge), and the subsequent code review and discussion can happen in the comments section of the PR on Gitea, in my view this terminology is accurate and useful.

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**Author:** ![Salisbury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Salisbury](https://forum.gitea.com/u/Salisbury)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2022, 3:41am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/change-pull-request-to-merge-request/2856/6 "2022-10-21T03:41:34Z")

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If I want someone to get me a beer, I don’t say “please open the fridge”, I say “please get me a beer”.

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**Author:** ![jolheiser](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.gitea.com/jolheiser/32/4807_2.png) [@jolheiser](https://forum.gitea.com/u/jolheiser)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2022, 4:02am UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/change-pull-request-to-merge-request/2856/7 "2022-10-21T04:02:11Z")

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