How to create 2nd pull request from same branch when 1st pull request is not merged yet

Question

(In Github) Say I have 2 branches named master and dev . I work on dev , and submit a commit c1 , then create a pull request PR1 to master , this will fix bug1 . Before the PR1 merged (sometimes my team needs lots of time to review pull requests), I continue working, fixed bug2 so I submit a commit c2 , then I create another pull request PR2 . But I find this PR2 includes 2 commits which is c1 & c2 . This is not my intent.

So how can I create a clean PR2 from dev branch which only include c2 commit before PR1 is merged?

And our team has rule that one pull request should only fix one bug.

Sorry for my poor English and thank you for your help.

Answer 1

Assuming you are using either GitHub or Bitbucket, pushing the second commit c2 should automatically update the first pull request, so typically you would not even have the need to create a new pull request.

If, for some reason, you need the c2 commit to go into master before c1 , then this is another story.

Edit:

If you really want a second pull request containing just c2 directly on top of master , then one approach would be to cherry-pick c2 on top of a new branch from master :

# from master
git checkout -b new_dev
git cherry-pick c2
git push origin new_dev

Then, create a pull request from new_dev into master .