update.md

name	example	route	scope	type
Update a pull request	octokit.rest.pulls.update({ owner, repo, pull_number })	PATCH /repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls/{pull_number}	pulls	API method

Update a pull request

Draft pull requests are available in public repositories with GitHub Free and GitHub Free for organizations, GitHub Pro, and legacy per-repository billing plans, and in public and private repositories with GitHub Team and GitHub Enterprise Cloud. For more information, see GitHub's products in the GitHub Help documentation.

To open or update a pull request in a public repository, you must have write access to the head or the source branch. For organization-owned repositories, you must be a member of the organization that owns the repository to open or update a pull request.

octokit.rest.pulls.update({
  owner,
  repo,
  pull_number,
});

Parameters

name	required	description
owner	yes
repo	yes
pull_number	yes
title	no	The title of the pull request.
body	no	The contents of the pull request.
state	no	State of this Pull Request. Either open or closed.
base	no	The name of the branch you want your changes pulled into. This should be an existing branch on the current repository. You cannot update the base branch on a pull request to point to another repository.
maintainer_can_modify	no	Indicates whether maintainers can modify the pull request.

See also: GitHub Developer Guide documentation.