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Satyan
Satyan

Reputation: 1406

Is it possible to send a pull request without forking

I am curious to find a way to initiate a pull request even if the current repository is not a fork.

Let us say, a team is writing a book, for that, they created a git repository called MyTeam/Book. Each of the team members are responsible for contributing one chapter to this book. Whatever the reason, each of the team members started a brand-new git repository (without forking form the MyTeam/Book). What we have now are PersonA/chapter1, PersonB/chapter2, PersonX/chapterN like that (none of this chapter has overlapping content). Is it possible for each of this chapter repositories to initiate a pull request to the MyTeam/Book even though they are not a fork from MyTeam/Book. If so how do we do that.

I couldn't find a good answer for this problem, even though there are a number of somewhat similar question exist with stack overflow.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 204

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1329492

If those team members are collaborator on the original MyTeam/Book repository, they can push their branch to that repository, assuming said branch was created from a commit existing in MyTeam/Book

Once the branch is pushed in the MyTeam/Book repository, they can initiate a PR from that branch to master, in the same repository.

We are looking for a solution without adding collaborators

Then you, as owner, would need to import their branch from their repository to the original one.

Upvotes: 2

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