RE the idea of shash-merge from a PR:  that would be cool were it not for
CHANGES.txt; ah well.

+1 to "put it in the PR template checklist"

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On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 2:37 PM Jan Høydahl <[email protected]> wrote:

> I like the idea to put it in the PR template checklist. Or you can ask the
> contributor to check that box. I once made a PR against another PR branch
> and it worked but was too many steps.
>
> I like the idea of squash-merging from PR branch since (I believe) the
> commit will then have the credit of the contributor which then shows up in
> his/her stats on GH which is nice.
>
> Jan Høydahl
>
> > 17. sep. 2019 kl. 16:17 skrev Jason Gerlowski <[email protected]>:
> >
> > Github does have an option that fork-owners can click when they create
> > a PR that will give those with karma on the upstream repo the same
> > karma on their PR branch.  [1] That would solve this problem somewhat.
> > But it's still up to users to choose that themselves.  Maybe it makes
> > sense to mention this as an optional checklist item in the PR template
> > that was recently added.
> >
> > Still curious about other approaches though if anyone has suggestions.
> >
> > [1]
> https://help.github.com/en/articles/allowing-changes-to-a-pull-request-branch-created-from-a-fork
> >
> >> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 10:12 AM Jason Gerlowski <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hey all,
> >>
> >> I've hit a small snag reviewing a few PRs on github recently.  Wanted
> >> to see if anyone has any suggestions for my workflow:
> >>
> >> I’ve found myself in the position a few times where I want to add a
> >> few small changes to a contributor’s PR…either to help them with a
> >> piece they haven’t gotten to yet, or to show what I’m suggesting with
> >> a particular review comment, or to clean up little things like
> >> whitespace formatting, etc.  In the patch world, this is easy to do
> >> without requiring review/acking by other contributors…you apply the
> >> latest patch, make your additional changes, and re-upload to jira.
> >> But in Github, you have to juggle branch/PR ownership.  PR’s are often
> >> from personal forks, where others don't have write access there.  So I
> >> can't add to the "main" PR without either (a) asking the contributor
> >> to give me the right karma, or (b) opening my own "secondary" PR
> >> against their "main" PR branch, and asking them to review/merge my
> >> "secondary" PR.
> >>
> >> Is there some simpler approach I'm missing?  I love the in-line
> >> comments that Github supports for code-review, and it seems like more
> >> committers are starting to use it.  I'd love to figure out how to make
> >> it work for me.  But two developers collaborating on the same PR seems
> >> like a pretty fundamental use case to be so heavyweight.  This must be
> >> a problem that's solved, right?
> >>
> >> Best,
> >>
> >> Jason
> >
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