[Python-Dev] Helping contributors with chores (do we have to?) (original) (raw)

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Sun Jun 25 21:16:00 EDT 2017

On Jun 25, 2017, at 5:39 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

On 25 June 2017 at 18:31, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

I have used it. I don’t use it every day but I’ve never had it fail on me unless the contributor has unchecked the flag. I just ``git remote add `` then checkout their branch, add more commits, and push to their branch. That's relatively simple, but not immediately obvious (at least to me).

I’m completely willing to agree that because git was the first VCS I used seriously (I tried Mercural out early on, but switched quickly before I got too deep in it b/c of Github) that my brain has successfully been broken in a git shaped way ;)

There's a lot of concepts in here that are not exactly basic: 1. Being allowed to have multiple remotes in one repository 2. Naming of branches in non-default remotes, and how to translate the name in the remote to the local name you need to use 3. Pushing to non-default remotes There's also the point noted that by default, github doesn't permit this usage, and the contributor has to explicitly allow it - which probably means the core dev need to know how to do it, and how to explain that process to the contributor.

Just a point of clarification, as far as I am aware Github defaults that checkmark to on, and PR authors have to explicitly turn it off to disable it. Although I think older PRs were all set to act as if the author did not grant that permission.

And probably others. I'm not interested in debating what constitutes stuff that "everyone should know", or how "easy" or not git is. But for someone coming from a familiarity with Mercurial (which means many core devs) the learning curve is pretty steep (I'd consider that self-evident, because of the differences between the 2 systems).

Not sure if this was aimed at me or not, but I don’t think that everyone should know that off the bat! I was just giving the steps I use to use it, hopefully in a useful way for other people.

— Donald Stufft

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