Hello everyone,
I and my friend were trying to build a project together using Github, for practicing.
this is what we have done, I hope you correct us if we are doing something wrong, also we have a problem in keeping our workflow sync together, so please we need your help.
- we created an organization and created a repo in it (as our upstream).
- then, each one, forked this repo to his GitHub profile (as our origin).
- then cloned this repo locally to our machines.
- I created some branches each one with a new feature to be added. then pushed it to my (origin)
- then made a pull request to the (upstream) with one of these branches and we merged it.
- when we tried to pull request other branches, Github said that (these branches can’t be merged automatically) because the (upstream) has been changed since we created these branches.
- now we are trying to update these branches so we can merge them, but we don’t know which method is the best to use.
- we updated our local master by using
git pull upstream master. now our (local master) is up to date with (upstream) and we need to update the branches also. But we don’t know what to do next.
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Should we use
git rebase?
after I read about it I thought that it is a bad idea, as it changes the history in a way that it may cause it to be so complicated, and I think it’s advanced. correct me if I’m wrong. -
Should we create new branches locally?
and copy/paste the changes to them then push these new branches to GitHub then pull request them then merge. I thought of this way as the safest and simplest way for me. but Idk if this what I should do. -
I read about git merge also as an alternative to git rebase
and Idk if I should use it too,
actually I’ve read articles about both of them (rebase and merge) but Idk If I have a good understanding.
I would appreciate any help, thanks in advance 