Moving to GitHub: Status Update, Action Required

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Tue Oct 25 04:54:10 PDT 2016


On 2016-10-25 10:36, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> 
> On Oct 24, 2016, at 17:57, Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:
> 
>>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 12:17:57AM +0200, Marko Käning wrote:
>>> A description of how exactly one would rebase (potentially squash and
>>> history-rewrite) a submitted PR onto current master should be on our
>>> WorkingWithGit wiki page.
>>
>> the easiest approach is just clicking the button that does this on
>> GitHub. Of course there's also a way to do it from the command line.
> 
> We should document, with screenshots, the specific buttons that should be clicked to achieve this, for the benefit of those developers like me who are not that familiar with git and GitHub. 

Keeping such a documentation with screenshots updated to the current
GitHub release seems excessive. The GitHub documentation already has
screenshots. We should not try to recreate it, but rather place the
links to the relevant sections.

https://help.github.com/articles/merging-a-pull-request/

Rainer


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