[kde-community] What is a GitHub pull request exactly?

Kevin Krammer krammer at kde.org
Sat Sep 19 17:49:02 BST 2015


On Saturday, 2015-09-19, 17:44:35, Vishesh Handa wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Kevin Krammer <krammer at kde.org> wrote:
> > Where "ahead" could also mean wrong if "klmn" needs to be modified or gets
> > rejected.
> > 
> > Is (b) the problem people keep discussing about?
> > 
> > Because as far as I can tell it is not really an option given that it can
> > lead to an inconsistent state of two clone sources that are considered to
> > be mirrored.
> 
> Yup (b) can be problematic. I think read-only means read-only and the
> developer has to push the patch manually in kde's git repo, which is
> then mirrors onto github.

For me option (b) is theoretical, nobody would want a mirror to be out of 
sync.

As for read-only: I don't see any way around that neither automated push nor 
pull would be an option.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 181 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/attachments/20150919/b872df44/attachment.sig>


More information about the kde-community mailing list