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Closing a PR without committing (for committers)

When we want to reject a PR (close without committing), we can just issue an empty commit on trunk HEAD without merging the PR:

git commit --allow-empty -m "closes apache/hadoop#ZZ *Won't fix*"
git push apache trunk

That will close PR ZZ on github mirror without merging and any code modifications in the master repository.Now Hadoop committer can directly close GitHub pull requests. If you are a commit and don't have the privilege, you need to link your ASF and GitHub account via https://gitbox.apache.org/setup/ 

Apache/github integration features

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