Re: [Python-Dev] My fork lacks a 3.7 branch - can I create it somehow?

2018-05-23 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 23 May 2018 at 19:25, Paul Moore wrote: > On 23 May 2018 at 09:14, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > On Tue, 22 May 2018 19:10:49 -0500 > > Tim Peters wrote: > > > >> Thanks for that! It instantly cleared up several mysteries for me.

Re: [Python-Dev] My fork lacks a 3.7 branch - can I create it somehow?

2018-05-23 Thread Paul Moore
On 23 May 2018 at 09:14, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2018 19:10:49 -0500 > Tim Peters wrote: > >> Thanks for that! It instantly cleared up several mysteries for me. >> I'm just starting to learn git & github, and am starkly reminded of an >>

Re: [Python-Dev] My fork lacks a 3.7 branch - can I create it somehow?

2018-05-23 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Tim Peters writes: > there is absolutely nothing "obvious" about source-control systems, > or workflows, before you already know them ;-) Obvious, adj.: More an expletive than a true adjective, shows a state of mind in which the speaker is comfortable that a statement fits her preconceptions.

Re: [Python-Dev] My fork lacks a 3.7 branch - can I create it somehow?

2018-05-23 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Tue, 22 May 2018 19:10:49 -0500 Tim Peters wrote: > [Nathaniel Smith ] > > ... > > As far as git is concerned, the main repo on github, your fork on > > github, and your local repo are 3 independent repositories, equally > > valid. The relationships

Re: [Python-Dev] My fork lacks a 3.7 branch - can I create it somehow?

2018-05-22 Thread Tim Peters
[Nathaniel Smith ] > ... > As far as git is concerned, the main repo on github, your fork on > github, and your local repo are 3 independent repositories, equally > valid. The relationships between them are purely a matter of > convention. Thanks for that! It instantly cleared up

Re: [Python-Dev] My fork lacks a 3.7 branch - can I create it somehow?

2018-05-22 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 3:51 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote: >> You don't really need copies of official branches on your Github fork if > you're not a maintainer for these branches. > > I explicitly wanted to run with 3.7 in the run-up to release. On that > branch, the built

Re: [Python-Dev] My fork lacks a 3.7 branch - can I create it somehow?

2018-05-22 Thread Ned Deily
On May 22, 2018, at 18:51, Skip Montanaro wrote: > [Ivan Pozdeev]: >> You don't really need copies of official branches on your Github fork >> if you're not a maintainer for these branches. > I explicitly wanted to run with 3.7 in the run-up to release. On that > branch,

Re: [Python-Dev] My fork lacks a 3.7 branch - can I create it somehow?

2018-05-22 Thread Skip Montanaro
> You don't really need copies of official branches on your Github fork if you're not a maintainer for these branches. I explicitly wanted to run with 3.7 in the run-up to release. On that branch, the built ./python reports 3.7.0b4+ at startup. Master tells me 3.8.0a0 on startup. Since my local

Re: [Python-Dev] My fork lacks a 3.7 branch - can I create it somehow?

2018-05-22 Thread Ivan Pozdeev via Python-Dev
On 22.05.2018 3:07, Skip Montanaro wrote: My GitHub fork of the cpython repo was made awhile ago, before a 3.7 branch was created. I have no remotes/origin/3.7. Is there some way to create it from remotes/upstream/3.7? I asked on GitHub's help forums. The only recommendation was to to delete my

Re: [Python-Dev] My fork lacks a 3.7 branch - can I create it somehow?

2018-05-21 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 10:45 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote: >> Create it from upstream? Yep! Try this: > >> git checkout -b 3.7 upstream/3.7 >> git push -u origin 3.7 > > Thanks, Chris! Didn't have to chug for too long either, just a few seconds. > > S Perfect! I'm used to

Re: [Python-Dev] My fork lacks a 3.7 branch - can I create it somehow?

2018-05-21 Thread Skip Montanaro
> Create it from upstream? Yep! Try this: > git checkout -b 3.7 upstream/3.7 > git push -u origin 3.7 Thanks, Chris! Didn't have to chug for too long either, just a few seconds. S ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] My fork lacks a 3.7 branch - can I create it somehow?

2018-05-21 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Skip Montanaro wrote: > My GitHub fork of the cpython repo was made awhile ago, before a 3.7 branch > was created. I have no remotes/origin/3.7. Is there some way to create it > from remotes/upstream/3.7? I asked on GitHub's help forums.

[Python-Dev] My fork lacks a 3.7 branch - can I create it somehow?

2018-05-21 Thread Skip Montanaro
My GitHub fork of the cpython repo was made awhile ago, before a 3.7 branch was created. I have no remotes/origin/3.7. Is there some way to create it from remotes/upstream/3.7? I asked on GitHub's help forums. The only recommendation was to to delete my fork and recreate it. That seemed kind of