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jimhester opened this issue Mar 10, 2019 · 2 comments
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Function to do the remote rename dance #649

jimhester opened this issue Mar 10, 2019 · 2 comments
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jimhester commented Mar 10, 2019 •
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When people first start contributing to a package one of the first major roadblocks is they likely have cloned the repo from the initial repo rather than from a fork. So they have to

  1. rename the origin remote to upstream then add the new remote as origin
  2. or burn it all down and re-clone from their fork, then add the origin as upstream later.

As far as I know there is no real way to do either step without needing command line git or something like Sourcetree, so it ends up being a pretty big hurdle for new contributors.
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hadley commented Mar 17, 2019

I think we should probably test for this situation in pr_init(), and if in an interactive environment, offer to resolve it automatically.

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Add/export helpers around git remotes
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Fixes #649
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Add/export helpers around git remotes
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Fixes #649
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Add/export helpers around git remotes (#678)
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* pkgdown-driven tweaks

* Add/export helpers around git remotes

Fixes #649

* Document the "remote rename dance"

* Add example of adding upstream remote

* Add test

* Add NEWS bullet

* pkgdown, add example, document()
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jennybc commented Mar 31, 2019 •
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use_git_remote() now makes this possible within R and the "remote rename dance" is one of the examples. It's possible we'll even provide more support in a hypothetical "unbork my fork" function (#618 Undo commits to a fork's master branch).

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