latest 20 messages by dmlloyd

+ [2020-07-14T16:56:05Z] dmlloyd ah additional opers, excellent
+ [2020-06-30T12:32:58Z] dmlloyd that adds a commit though, it doesn't remove one
+ [2020-06-30T12:32:45Z] dmlloyd if you own the branch
+ [2020-06-30T12:32:40Z] dmlloyd you could revert it, maybe
+ [2020-06-30T12:32:21Z] dmlloyd not that I know of...
+ [2020-06-26T16:05:33Z] dmlloyd though tbh it could; they just haven't done so, probably because you're more likely to push to the wrong name by mistake than to want to actually create a repo
+ [2020-06-26T16:04:57Z] dmlloyd yeah pushing doesn't create the repository
+ [2020-06-23T22:00:43Z] dmlloyd if you want to remove a branch, `git push foo :branchName`
+ [2020-03-12T18:18:56Z] dmlloyd for future reference though, github is more intuitive with branches that are periodically rebased on upstream than with branches that are periodically merged with upstream
+ [2020-03-12T18:18:09Z] dmlloyd then you're probably fine
+ [2020-03-12T18:16:41Z] dmlloyd as long as the git history makes sense, it should be OK
+ [2020-03-12T18:16:34Z] dmlloyd hopefully ;)
+ [2020-03-12T18:15:47Z] dmlloyd so then it's just like.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
+ [2020-03-12T18:15:36Z] dmlloyd and sometimes the answer is "both"
+ [2020-03-12T18:15:25Z] dmlloyd so to reason what branch is the "base" branch you have to follow all the parents back until you find one or more commit(s) from the "base" branch - and then decide which path is shorter
+ [2020-03-12T18:14:13Z] dmlloyd (for example combining multiple projects into one)
+ [2020-03-12T18:14:02Z] dmlloyd we've had merges with many many parents in the past :)
+ [2020-03-12T18:13:40Z] dmlloyd merges don't really have base branches; they just have more than one parent
+ [2020-03-12T18:12:32Z] dmlloyd if you manually merge it, and push that up, github should automatically close the PR as "merged"
+ [2020-03-12T18:12:14Z] dmlloyd IIRC it's just the UI that's confused but to be safe you might want to manually merge that PR and double check that it looks git-okay