[Python-Dev] My fork lacks a 3.7 branch - can I create it somehow?

[Ivan Pozdeev]

On 22.05.2018 3:07, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> My GitHub fork of the cpython repo was made awhile ago, before a 3.7 branch
> was created. I have no remotes/origin/3.7. Is there some way to create it
> from remotes/upstream/3.7? I asked on GitHub's help forums. The only
> recommendation was to to delete my fork and recreate it. That seemed kind
> of drastic, and I will do it if that's really the only way, but this seems
> like functionality Git and/or GitHub probably supports.
>
> Thx,
You don't really need copies of official branches on your Github fork if 
you're not a maintainer for these branches.
(You'll have to keep master though AFAIK since Git needs some branch to 
be marked as "default".)

It's sufficient to just have topic branches for PRs there: you take 
official branches from python/cpython and topic branches from your fork, 
do the edits and manipulations locally, then upload the changed topic 
branches to your fork.
I found this easier than having everything in your fork 'cuz it saves 
you the hassle of keeping your copies up-to-date and having unexpected 
merge conflicts in your PRs if the copies get out of date.

> Skip
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Regards,
Ivan