I think the problem you're experiencing is not uncommon but has a solution.
FWIW, I prefer git, but I think the best version control system for R is whatever R-core prefers. If they were 2% more productive working in an MS Word documents with Track Changes than git, so much worse for git. On 25 January 2018 at 10:17, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > Lately I've been doing some work with the manipulateWidget package, which > lives on Github at > https://github.com/rte-antares-rpackage/manipulateWidget/. Last week I > found a bug, so being a good community member, I put together a patch. > > Since the package lives on Github, I followed instructions to put together a > "pull request": > > - I forked the main branch to my own Github account as > <https://github.com/dmurdoch/manipulateWidget>. > > - I checked out my fork into RStudio. > > - I fixed the bug, and submitted the pull request > <https://github.com/rte-antares-rpackage/manipulateWidget/pull/47>. > > Then I felt good about myself, and continued on with my work. Today I > tracked down another bug, unrelated to the previous one. I know enough > about git to know that I shouldn't commit this fix to my fork, because it > would then become part of the previous pull request. > > So I created a branch within my fork, and committed the change there. But > Github provides no way to create a pull request that only includes the new > stuff! Every attempt I made would have included everything from both bug > fixes. > > I've read online about creating a new branch based on the master copy, and > "cherry picking" just the final change: but all the instructions I've tried > so far have failed. > > Okay, I know the solution: I need to burn the whole thing down (to quote > Jenny Bryan). I'll just create a new fork, and put the new bug fix in a > branch there. > > I can't! I don't know if this is a Git restriction or a Github restriction, > but it won't let me create a new fork without deleting the old one. I don't > know if deleting the previous fork would also delete the previous PR, so I'm > not going to do this. > > This is ridiculous! It is such an easy concept: I want to take the diff > between my most recent commit and the one before, and send that diff to the > owners of the master copy. This should be a trivial (and it is in svn). > > Git and Github allow the most baroque arrangements, but can't do this simple > task. That's an example of really bad UI design. > > Duncan Murdoch > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
