title: How to do hotfixes with GitHub Pull Requests
body: <p>Caveat: I am fairly new to both git and GitHub.</p>
  
  <p>So, in my current setup, my team uses git flow Hotfixes (usually started and finished by a graphical tool such as GitKraken or IntelliJ) to make changes that have to be merged into two branches and pushed upstream in both. So for example the flow would be:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Pull latest from master</li>
  <li>Start hotfix</li>
  <li>Commit changes</li>
  <li>Merge hotfix branch into both master and develop and push both upstream</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>We're now looking at moving our code into GitHub and would like to start using Pull Requests, for a couple of reasons:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>CI hooks to run tests and stuff</li>
  <li>a place to put code-specific comments not directly related to the underlying "issue"</li>
  <li>avoiding the need for everyone to constantly be pulling the latest master/develop to their local machine so that they can merge changes</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>But in the case of Hotfixes, I'm not sure what to do because I'm merging into two branches but it really is one "action" so manually creating two pull requests seems weird, particularly since step 4) in our current flow is a single click.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a smart way of handling this? My ideal case would be that pushing the Merge button on the Pull Request would just merge into both, but that doesn't seem to be an available option.</p>