This page holds various tips and tricks for working with Astropy's github repositories.

• Issues can be converted to pull requests by attaching code. This can't be done using the github web interface, currently, but it can be done via the github API. A script to do this is available at https://gist.github.com/1750715 However, you need to have write permission in the repository to do so.
• If you don't have write permission, open a new pull request and put the string closes #122 in the commit message (where #122 would be number of the issue you fix with your pull request. This will cause #122 to be closed automatically when you pull request is merged.