+ [2017-04-30T17:24:39Z] a_p3rson|D Hey y'all, need some advice for doing PRs and whatnot. I'm working on an issue for a repo, which doesn't really have any good branches to speak of. What I've been doing is forking the repo, then creating a branch from master to work on that issue. When I fixed it, I'm wondering if I should merge the issue branch and master in my copy of the repo, and then submit the PR (master to master), or submit the PR without a merge to master (i.e
+ [2017-04-30T17:25:32Z] a_p3rson|D I did the former, but now I'm thinking that if I want to work on another (unrelated) issue before that PR gets handled, I'm not going to be able to merge to master in my copy without borking my initial PR.
+ [2017-04-30T22:45:41Z] preaction ktechmidas: no staff are in here to my knowledge, but no, that is absolutely inappropriate and you will get banned for it
+ [2017-04-30T22:46:30Z] preaction a_p3rson|D: you should always submit PRs from a branch in your repo. that way you can have multiple open PRs that don't affect one another
+ [2017-04-30T22:47:06Z] preaction a_p3rson|D: when one PR is merged to their master, you rebase your other PRs so they can be applied

message no. 167996

Posted by SReject in #github at 2017-04-30T09:02:53Z

is there a way, after a file has been updated, to ignore all local changes for all subsequent commits. basically. I have an example config file uploaded, and don't want the chance of accidentally uploading my actual config. Renaming isn't an option
+ [2017-05-01T05:52:55Z] kafnjr #GeekBlogTV
+ [2017-05-01T15:31:55Z] FrozenFire Anyone know of an existing Slack integration that will send private messages to people on Slack when they receive a request for review on a PR?
+ [2017-05-01T16:15:53Z] hardenedapple Is there any way to setup default directory listing on github.io pages? i.e. navigating to username.github.io/subdirectory shows files in that directory instead of a 404 page.
+ [2017-05-01T18:47:47Z] preaction hardenedapple: no
+ [2017-05-01T18:48:03Z] preaction hardenedapple: there are likely jekyll plugins or hugo plugins that will do that though