Interesting Reading on Git, GitHub

• github development workflow
  • http://scottchacon.com/2011/08/31/github-flow.html
  • http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
• working on pull request branches opened from forks, without adding the fork as a remote (copied fromthis post):

Strictly speaking, you do not need another remote. To just download the code
use `git fetch upstream pull/1756/head:fix_arclink`. To push, you can specify
the remote url without adding it `git push git@github.com:petrr/obspy fix_arclink`.

I also like to set an `insteadOf` config like:

"""
$ git config --list | grep instead
url.git://github.com/.insteadof=github:
url.git@github.com:.pushinsteadof=github:
"""

so that I can do `git push github:petrr/obspy fix_arclink`.

• convert existing issue into a pull request

  • can be done using github/hub (available for Anaconda)

    hub pull-request -i 1704 -b obspy:master -h obspy:trace_always_contiguous

  • or via a simple POST command, e.g. using curl:

    curl --user megies --request POST --data '{"issue": "2", "head": "megies:testbranch2", "base": "master"}' https://api.github.com/repos/obspy/obspy/pulls
    # in case of 2-factor authentication enabled..
    curl --header "X-GitHub-OTP: 123456" --user megies --request POST --data '{"issue": 2, "head": "megies:testbranch2", "base": "master"}' https://api.github.com/repos/obspy/obspy/pulls

    • issue: number of the already existing normal issue
    • head: repository/branch that should be pulled in
    • base: branch that the pull request should be merged into (target repository specified in the url), usually either master (for feature branches) or releases (for bug fixes)
• interaction with svn
  • https://github.com/blog/1178-collaborating-on-github-with-subversion
• Squash commits using git rebase

# squash the last 4 commits interactively
# Only do this on a branch no one else is using
git rebase -i HEAD~4
git push --force upstream my_feature_branch