---
title: "Why curl closes PRs on GitHub"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-curl-closes-prs-on-github-j4lbamwy8
source_url: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/06/11/why-curl-closes-prs-on-github/
type: article
source: "daniel.haxx.se"
published: 2024-06-11T10:05:29.747Z
updated: 2024-08-23T15:18:13.752Z
tags: ["github", "git"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 38
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# Why curl closes PRs on GitHub

**[daniel.haxx.se](https://daily.dev/sources/danielhaxxse)** · 3 min read · 38 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

Contributors to the curl project on GitHub have noticed that pull requests are closed instead of being merged. This is due to limitations in GitHub's UI and the project's preference for manual merges and specific commit messages.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/06/11/why-curl-closes-prs-on-github/>

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