[Potlatch-dev] Github, and tram/road issues

[Tom Hughes]

On 16/02/12 14:16, Andy Allan wrote:

> On 16 February 2012 13:11, Steve Bennett<stevagewp at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Are there any policies/practice around using feature branches? I'm not
>> sure if it's a Github limitation (or standard Git), but it seems one
>> doesn't actually send individual "pull requests" - at any one time,
>> you can have a grand total of 1 pull request outstanding. If I'm
>> working on a bug fix for bug #1234, is it easier if I make a branch
>> (eg, bug-1234) first? Does that help anything?
>
> It's good practise, regardless of whether you're making pull requests,
> to use feature branches. I'm not quite sure what your situation is,
> but I've never come across any limitation on the number of pull
> requests that I can have open at the same time.

The limitation is that you can't have more than one pull request on a 
given branch, because it doesn't really make any sense as if you push to 
a branch that you have opened a pull on then the new commits are added 
to that pull.

A pull is a request to pull a branch, not specific commits.

Tom

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