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GitHub today announced a bunch of new features at its virtual GitHub Universe conference including dark mode, auto-merge pull requests, and Enterprise Server 3.0. In the past couple of years ...
Recently, Github talked about how they use merge queues for implementing code updates at GitHub. Merge queues have been developed and scaled to manage over 30,000 pull requests, alongside the ...
My team is transitioning to GIT, and we are just doing our first pull-requests. Since GIT recommends every new feature have its own branch and then merge it to Main with a pull-request when it is ...
We looked at how you can complete all the essential GitHub tasks, including creating local and remote repositories, submitting pull requests, and merging multiple branches.
Linux creator Linus Torvalds isn’t a fan of how GitHub’s web interface merges code, which he believes creates “absolutely useless garbage merges.” The commentary follows a pull request ...
Create a GitLab merge request. Approve a GitLab merge request. Clone the remote GitLab repo locally. Use the most important Git commands locally. Push your local changes back to GitLab. Step 1: ...
Jonathan Corbet wrote a document for inclusion in the kernel tree, describing best practices for merging and rebasing git-based kernel repositories. As he put it, it represented workflows that were ...
Linus Torvalds is not at all a fan of GitHub merges as he revealed recently in a response to a pull request. Torvalds thinks GitHub is mostly "fine", "but merges is not one of those things".
Via The Register, Torvalds offered Komarov a few pointers on how not to submit pull requests in the future, especially using GitHub's web interface for any code merges into the Linux kernel.