[Python-Dev] My fork lacks a 3.7 branch (original) (raw)

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

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Mon May 21 20:19:57 EDT 2018

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro at gmail.com> 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 fork and recreate it. That seemed kind of drastic, and I will do it if that's really the only way, but this seems like functionality Git and/or GitHub probably supports.

Create it from upstream? Yep! Try this:

git checkout -b 3.7 upstream/3.7 git push -u origin 3.7

That'll probably have to chug-chug-chug to push all that content up to GitHub; AFAIK they don't have any optimization for "this commit already exists in another fork of this repository", so you'll have to upload everything as if it's completely new. But other than that, it should be quick and easy.

ChrisA

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