On 24/01/2018 6:35 PM, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
When you create a branch for your bug fix, don't create it off the
previous fix. Create it off the original, forked state of the repo.
Branches keepclass2 through to keepclass5 are my attempts to do that.
As far as I can see they are all the same as keepclass, which was
branched from the head of the master branch of my fork.
Are the two commits here your fixes?
https://github.com/dmurdoch/manipulateWidget/commits/master
Those are both part of the first PR. There's a third commit in
keepclass (and the other branches too...)
If you or someone else tells me the magic commands I need to do what I
want, I'll appreciate it. But the main point of my post is that this is
something that should be easy. It shouldn't require expert help. The
fact that it does is a flaw in the design of Git or Github or both.
Duncan Murdoch
Gabor
On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 11:17 PM, 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
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