# Sync the branches in GitHub

I now have three branches which have different status. If I go back to Code and select branches, I can see that **Test** and **dev** are 1 commit ahead of **main**. Hover your mouse above the numbers to clarify this.

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We sync the branches using **pull requests**. We do this manually and we must accept the changes. If I click on **New pull request**, I see a summary of the changes.

Off screen (it is too big to show!) I see a description of all five files.

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I click to **Create pull request**.

I now have the opportunity to approve this request. If this was a multi-programmer project, this sort of workflow would be critical.

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I click to **merge pull request** and then to **confirm**.

I can see this was successful.

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And when I go back to check the main branch, my files are there.

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