[phobos] Pushing directly to D-Programming-Language

[David Nadlinger via phobos]

[I accidentally replied off-list earlier, see below.]

Sure, you're welcome.

And apologies for being a bit blunt before. It's just that we 
historically haven't been the best at avoiding Git accidents, even 
though we have Brad's awesome tools at our disposal.

Best,
David



On 1 Jul 2014, at 23:26, Andrew Edwards wrote:
> On 7/2/14, 6:14 AM, David Nadlinger wrote:
>> On 1 Jul 2014, at 23:05, Andrew Edwards wrote:
>>> I have created the 2.066 branch in my fork and am trying to make a 
>>> pull request for it. This is not possible because there is 
>>> absolutely no difference between the branched code and master. What 
>>> is your proposal for accomplishing this?
>>
>> For creating the branch, you need to push it directly to the 
>> D-Programming-Language repository – at least I don't of any other 
>> way.
>>
>> However, creating a branch isn't a dangerous thing to do anyway. If I 
>> started to randomly create branches in the shared repository, I'd 
>> probably start to annoy the other devs rather quickly just because of 
>> the mess I'd create and the GitHub notifications triggered by that. 
>> Still, I wouldn't run any risk of directly hampering their work.
>>
>> It's just directly modifying master that is dangerous, because 
>> everybody depends on it for pull requests and the auto-tester.
>>
>> Best,
>> David
> Thanks. Just wanted to make sure I'm not causing any issues.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew