If the original commit history is messy I would recommend squashing the original commits and using "coauthored-by" to attribute the original author. It's best to do this before making your own commits on top.
Oscar On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 at 00:09, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: > > You can revive an existing PR if the author isn't working on it any > more. See https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/Reviving-pull-requests. > > It isn't possible for you to reuse the same PR unless you have push > access. In that case, it is fine to close the PR and open a new one > that references the old one. The important thing is to leave the > original commits intact so that the authorship stays (only push new > commits, don't squash your commits into the other person's). > > Aaron Meurer > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 5:07 PM Stefan W <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have a question: if the author of a PR is inactive, is it possible for > > someone else to continue their work without opening a new PR (meaning, > > branching from their branch, and continuing work) ? What would be a best > > practice for this? > > > > Thanks, > > Stefan > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "sympy" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/69a12ed3-4106-48ae-a90f-d39249149033n%40googlegroups.com. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAKgW%3D6Jxx7Q91HCjREc5cgF6_KtXzHLZ%3D4wsEvwExamHKg4k8w%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAHVvXxQ0vMkW5uB4BoHCmAj43xGmm-bxNV9vJ89who_NYVT9aQ%40mail.gmail.com.
