Re: [gentoo-proxy-maint] app-misc/g810-led: Clean version bump to 0.3.5

[Michael Everitt]

On 27/06/19 09:01, Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier wrote:
> [2019-06-27 08:49:59+0100] Michael Everitt:
>> On 27/06/19 08:42, Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier wrote:
>>> Github wants me to send them a full update of the gentoo tree everytime and
>>> apparently doesn't like shallow clones.
>>>
>>>  ! [remote rejected]         revbump/app-misc_g810-led/0.3.5 -> revbump/app-misc_g810-led/0.3.5 (shallow update not allowed)
>>>
>>> So I'm trying to send this simple version bump via git send-email instead.
>> It's standard practice at Gentoo to rebase your changes on the current HEAD
>> - it might seem perverse at first, but if you keep a clean branch in your
>> fork, it's not too hard to do.
> Well, this branch is recent enough to not need a rebase as I did it
> directly from the master branch of the gentoo repo.
>
> I think the only way I had it working nicely (with still wasting a
> pile of bandwith/time on sending gentoo commits to github), was with
> cloning from my Github Fork™ and add the gentoo repo as a remote.
>
you should be able to push to your Fork, and then github will prompt you to
make a pull-request from there. I use gentoo as a remote, to pull into my
'upstream'/gentoo branch (of my fork). If that makes sense?! :)