<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 21, 2016, at 9:14 AM, Daniel Dunbar via swift-dev <<a href="mailto:swift-dev@swift.org" class="">swift-dev@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">While on this topic...<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">GitHub's support for doing cross-repo pull requests is excellent. Anyone can easily fork the main repo, and push to their side repo (for example, with: `git push ddunbar HEAD:name-of-my-new-branch`) and the GitHub web UI on the main repo will automatically show you a handy button for creating the PR.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>You can also set the pushurl for a remote so that it goes to a different repo. This is what I do:</div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(77, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(223, 219, 195);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">$ git remote -v</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(77, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(223, 219, 195);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">origin<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="mailto:git@github.com" class="">git@github.com</a>:apple/swift.git (fetch)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(77, 47, 45); background-color: rgb(223, 219, 195);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">origin<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="mailto:git@github.com" class="">git@github.com</a>:rudkx/swift.git (push)</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>This makes it possible to continue using ./utils/update-checkout to set up and update repos, with the one small step that you need to use ‘git config’ to set the pushurl after the initial clone.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Any ‘push’ thereafter will go to your fork.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>The only minor annoyance I’ve run across is that ‘git fetch --prune’ and ‘git remote update --prune’ will delete tracking branches for things you push to your fork.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">With this level of support, IMHO branches usually should be pushed to individual's own repos, not the main repo.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I agree. This is how I’ve done all my PRs.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Mark</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> - Daniel</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 21, 2016, at 5:50 AM, Alex Blewitt via swift-dev <<a href="mailto:swift-dev@swift.org" class="">swift-dev@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">There are a lot of branches in the main Swift Git repository at the moment. Many of these appear to be short-term testing branches that are out of date, or work in progress that may be better in an external repository until the work is done. There are also a number of branches (e.g. swift-3.0-preview-*-branch) which are in most cases out-of-step with the tags due to updating version numbers e.g.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(175, 173, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">9cf1a6f807dd0d36eca20433341a4f1667616431 tag:swift-3.0-PREVIEW-5</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(175, 173, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">b687a0a9d3a4b588ee6c8ca5b43042bbd2fb8586 head:swift-3.0-preview-5-branch</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cleaning up the stale branches will allow others to focus on what the current work areas are, and what are the main branches to be pushing changes to.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; 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