[Toybox] GitHub Apps - Repo Lockdown · GitHub

[Rob Landley]

On 8/18/20 12:17 PM, enh wrote:
>     But closing it, I have to navigate to the website which I'm not always logged
>     into even when I am online. (Why github-generated .patch files don't have the
>     "closes #xxx" magic signature you were telling me about, I couldn't tell you.
>     They didn't anticipate this workflow, I guess? "I have assumptions about how
>     this hammer will be used, and it breaks if you don't do that" = cheap hammer.)
> 
> (the whole "you need to fork the project to send a patch" model just baffles me.

It fluffs out their metrics. If you count forks as projects, then the "number of
projects on github" looks enormous.

> i don't think i could have come up with a more alien way of contributing to a
> project than github's if i'd actually set out to try to do so. just the fact
> that it litters the internet with abandoned "forks" [that aren't usually really
> forks in the traditional sense] and leaves you struggling to understand which
> [if any] is the "real" project...)

You can delete the fork as soon as you send the pull request (before it's even
merged) but they don't explain that.

Rob