Suggestion: Explicitly warn to not use GitHub web UI for patches
Paul D
newtwen at gmail.com
Tue Oct 5 07:24:21 PDT 2021
Roughly
Write this up into an FAQ/howto on openwrt.org (this is, after all, the
OWRT way)
Link to it in a
https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/configuring-branches-and-merges-in-your-repository/defining-the-mergeability-of-pull-requests/troubleshooting-required-status-checks
which looks for any commit containing:
Committer: "GitHub <noreply at github.com>"
Accepting "drive-by" PRs is overall a good thing, even if it is a bumpy
path.
On 2021-10-03 23:22, Adrian Schmutzler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've repeatedly made the observation that people who submit PRs with edits
> from GitHub's web interface cannot do history edits there when we request
> them.
>
> This leads to a lot of frustration both for the reviewers and the
> submitters. Eventually, it's mostly one of the following three undesirable
> options:
>
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