On 03/22/2015 06:21 PM, Roland Haeder wrote: > On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 21:40:41 +0000 > Matthew Toseland <mj...@cam.ac.uk> wrote: > >> On 22/03/15 19:22, Ian Clarke wrote: >> Unfortunately, sometimes it is necessary to make big changes. > > One good example is the initial import of all files for a new project. > There you commit a huge chunk of files and directories. > > As I'm (different project) a newcomer to a project's development, I > had started cloning the original repository (creating a "personal > clone") and started developing. I did this by committing carefully and > I tried to avoid huge changes (not always possible, more below) to let > them easily review them. > > Then I stepped towards them and my commits got rejected because I > didn't make a "feature branch" or "fix branch" ... :-( That is kind of > frustrating because my commits won't make it in.
Oh no! :( That shouldn't have happened - that does not strike me as reason alone to reject a pull request. Do you have a link to it? > What I mean here is that the maintainer should not be so bureaucratic > to newcomers as this could turn them away and they may never come back. Indeed. I've been making an effort to be more flexible like https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/2015-February/037983.html
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