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Ayusman
Ayusman

Reputation: 8719

Github Pullrequest shows changes not yet included

I cloned my fork of a public repository and made some changes; and then created a pull request.

However, any changes I pushed to my fork after I created that pull request are also being included in the pull request, even though I never requested them to be included?

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Why is Git showing the changes that I did not create a pull request for? How can I avoid it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 57

Answers (2)

Burhan Khalid
Burhan Khalid

Reputation: 174614

Thanks, I did not know that. Should I make those branches in my local repository or my repository on github? Also will it not create a lot of branches? If I understand it right every branch will cause a identical copy to be created. I am sorry if my questions are naive.

A branch is not a "copy" of the repository. It just creates a separate history to track changes; and as such it does not increase the disk space used (if that's your concern - I know people new to git seem to think this).

In addition, when you create a pull request from a branch and your pull request is accepted - github will offer you the option to delete that branch (since the changes are now merged into the master):

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Upvotes: 1

SLaks
SLaks

Reputation: 887195

GitHub pull requests are for a single branch.

They will automatically include all commits push to that branch.

You should make a separate branch for each independent change.

Upvotes: 5

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