On 2018-11-22, at 2:49 PM, Philip Oakley <philipoak...@iee.org> wrote:
> if it is just URL replacement then consider a smudge/clean filter so that the > worktree (local checked out files) have the URLs you want, but when you > checkin/add/commit the URLs are replaced (changed back to) the URLs the > upstream wants. > > > I guess it is a simple sed invocation, with reverse in the other direction. And if I'm talking about serving something out of github in the first place? ... Between github.io which serves github, gh-pages branch, or jsdelvr, which will serve any github _ref_ but caches it for a week (makes it impossible to do testing or changes)? I guess this is the problem. It needs to be in github to be usable, it needs to be on gh-pages for github.io to serve as current, which in turn means that "gh-pages" is a moving branch that gets reset between testing and deployment, which in turn means if I want to publish I need to ... ??? Still working on that, lets call it "step 2" for now :-). Meanwhile, there's still all the other issues about contributing pull requests when any branch will have both pullable and non-pullable changes, maintaining my own "current", and keeping a readable history. Git for Windows, as I understand it, does straight rebasing and losing all history of patches; there has (?) to be better? right? imerge's "rebase with history" -- did anything ever come from that? > > P. > > On 22/11/2018 21:09, Michael wrote: >> I think that I am using git incorrectly. What I want to do is way too hard. >> >> I have forked someone's repository from GitHub. >> I had to make some initial changes to URLs to be able to run my version. >> I made changes that consist of code change, and a change log change. >> >> First issue: I want to make a pull request for GitHub that has those code >> changes. I don't want to include the changed URLs, and I know that the >> change log change will not apply cleanly. How do I contribute my changes >> back to the base? >> >> Second issue: I have other changes after that first one. How do I contribute >> those changes as separate pull requests without having them contain the >> first change, or the changed URLs, etc.? >> >> Third issue: I want to keep up to date with the parent. As it makes changes, >> I want to merge those changes in. I know this is what rebase is for, and I >> know that this is the issue that "Git for Windows" and others have to deal >> with, but either I'm doing it wrong, or it's a lot harder than it ought to >> be. >> >> Fourth issue: I want to keep my history clean. A quick look at the "rerere" >> man page shows the issue -- showing a lot of merges from the origin back to >> me that later wind up being merged back into the origin results in a mess. >> By now this has to be a solved problem, right? If it got Linus to complain, >> then there's a solution, right? >> >> Fifth issue: test deployment. Separate from my live branch (which others may >> be using), I want a test deployment. This would have a different set of URLs >> that I changed in the first step, as well as a different change log/welcome >> message to indicate that it is the test deployment. But it would basically >> be the same set of changes, that would be applied wherever it was needed. >> Except that the last time I moved this change, with a rebase -onto, I >> discovered that it was actually moved. What I think I want would be a way to >> reapply a set of changes at the tip of a branch head for test deployment, >> without deleting that set of changes -- ideally, so a single script could >> apply the same constant set of changes. >> >> The problem with that fifth issue is that as far as I can tell there's no >> way to do that in Git, so clearly that's not what I want to do. >> >> Help? I feel like this is where I move from being a beginner with Git to an >> intermediate with Git. >> >> For reference: >> >> My Fork: https://github.com/keybounce/AutoTrimps >> Upstream: https://github.com/Zorn192/AutoTrimps >> --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
