Hello,

it's a bit unclear what exactly you mean by “polluted”. Pull requests in
GitHub are nothing but branches in other the repo of someone else (a fork)
compared with a branch of the main project. If everyone is happy, the
maintainer pushes the Big Green Button (merge this PR), then GitHub
conveniently merges those two branches together.

The only way I can think of getting “polluted” is when the main project
accepts PRs often. This way your target branch quickly moves away from the
state the PR was based on, and the author of the PR has to either recreate
the PR or rebase their branch to the new state of the target (GitHub will
recognise such rebase, and automatically updates the PR). If this is your
case, unfortunately I can't see any other solutions. Maybe you should open
a support case with GitHub.

Best,
Gergely

On Thu, Jan 5, 2017, 01:22 AD S <[email protected]> wrote:

> I work in a large team where dozens for branches and commits get created
> daily.
>
> Sometimes (and seemingly at random), the pull-request I create on Github
> get 'polluted' with other peoples branches and I have to recreate them.
> What might have 20 commits and 10 files ends up with hundred of other
> peoples commits and thousands for files.
>
> It can be solved by creating a new pull request on that branch, but I was
> curious as to why this occurs.
>
> Cheers
>
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