You made a chocolate branch and added chips to the vegan pancakes. Bold.
Last time you merged bananas into Sam's breakfast without asking anyone. A pull request asks first. It gives everyone a place to look at your change and talk about it before it goes into main.
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Pull request is GitHub's name for it. GitLab calls the same thing a merge request. The name sounds backwards, but you're asking the project to pull your branch in.