[Python-Dev] Helping contributors with chores (do we have to?)

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Sun Jun 25 13:31:00 EDT 2017


> On Jun 25, 2017, at 1:02 PM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> However, like Antoine, when I've tried to do this then all I've managed is to get obscure errors from GitHub. Did I have the wrong incantations? Was the permissions toggle set wrong? (I thought the web ui said it wasn't, but maybe I misunderstood.) It's a mystery. Has anyone figured out how to make *this* work reliably or ergonomically?



I have used it. I don’t use it every day but I’ve never had it fail on me unless the contributor has unchecked the flag. I just ``git remote add <github username> <github url>`` then checkout their branch, add more commits, and push to their branch.


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Donald Stufft



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