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Comment: Add pointer to GitHub plain text views for pull requests

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If you accept a pull request, you have to apply it as a patch to the Apache WIP repository, this commit will then be propagated to the GitHub mirror. GitHub provides a nice API for retrieving diffs for pull requests: just add ".diff" or ".patch" to the PR URL and you will get the diff/patch, for example https://github.com/apache/commons-foo/pull/72.diff. In the comment of the commit/merge you should use GitHub syntax (closes #xx) to close the PR. There is no other way to close pull requests. So to reduce the INFRA teams workload (to work on your tickets with close requests) remember this procedure.

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