[dmd-internals] Fixing github pull requests that I borked up

Walter Bright walter at digitalmars.com
Tue Oct 8 01:56:21 PDT 2013


On 10/8/2013 1:25 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 08, 2013 01:18:45 Walter Bright wrote:
>> Because I often need to amend a pull request, and I was told it was done
>> with:
>>
>>       git --amend -a
>>       git push -f
>>
>> and I've been doing that successfully since I've been doing PR's.
> That's perfectly fine as long as it's to your branch (which it normally would
> be for a PR). The problem is when it's done to master. However, I didn't know
> that you could get away with doing a push without listing the target branch. I
> always list the target branch, which is less error-prone, since you're never
> going to push -f to master.

I'm not really sure why that one time I did it it applied it to master rather 
than the branch. Anyhow, what is the syntax to apply it only to a branch?


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