Sometimes we just need to feed the SEO gods… in this case, I could not find the simple git command line to update a pull request that I had in flight.
I was looking for the following:
git push personal HEAD:[pull branch]
Github.com happily gave me instructions from the pull branch but not the CLI version of the command. The trick is that you need to know your remote (git remote) for the command so it’s not perfectly generic. In the example above, my personal repo is named “personal”.
Deconstructing the command: you are pushing your to your personal clone from the local HEAD commit against the branch created for the pull request. That’s because the pull request creates a branch from your clone to be pulled into the upstream repo. That’s why it’s a PULL request not a push.
Ultimately, this is pretty basic git. My experience with git is that the definition of “pretty basic” is a binary function. Once you know how git works, everything in git is pretty basic. Until then it’s completely opaque.
Side note: this is my 301st post on this blog!
