Here’s a good workaround. Use the Edit button when viewing the PR in GitHub to change the base branch to something other than master. Then switch it back to master and it will now correctly show only the changes from the most recent commits.
UPDATE: The hub command is now an official github project and also supports creating pull requests ORIGINAL: Seems like a particularly useful thing to add to the hub command: http://github.com/defunkt/hub or the github gem: http://github.com/defunkt/github-gem I suggest filing an issue with those projects asking for it. The github guys are pretty responsive.
To update a pull request To update a pull request (point #1), the only thing you need to do is checkout the same branch the pull request is from and push to it again: cd /my/fork git checkout master … git commit -va -m “Correcting for PR comments” git push Optional – Cleaning commit history … Read more
Adding a pull request to an existing upstream issue is easy assuming you forked using the normal github means. Simply reference the issue in your commit message using any of the supported keywords: close closes closed fix fixes fixed resolve resolves resolved For example: “this commit fixes #116” The text referencing the issue does not … Read more
To fetch a remote PR into your local repo, git fetch origin pull/$ID/head:$BRANCHNAME where $ID is the pull request id and $BRANCHNAME is the name of the new branch that you want to create. Once you have created the branch, then simply git checkout $BRANCHNAME For instance, let’s imagine you want to checkout pull request … Read more
Update: Via Webpage You can also do this via the github webpage. I assume, you should have already a fork (MyFork) of the common repo (BaseRepo) which has the pending pull request from a fork (OtherFork) you are interested in. Navigate to the fork (OtherFork) which has initiated the pull request which you like to … Read more
If you have a code change in your repository, and want to move it to a target repository, then: “Push” is you forcing the changes being present in the target repository (git push). “Pull” is the target repository grabbing your changes to be present there (git pull from the other repo). A “pull request” is … Read more