robertpainsi

How to reopen a pull-request after a force-push?

Precodinitions

• You need the rights to reopen pull requests on the repository.
• The pull request hasn't been merged, just closed.

Instructions

1. Write down the current commit hash of your PR-branch git log --oneline -1 <PR-BRANCH>
2. Write down the latest commit hash on github before the PR has been closed.
3. git push -f origin :

n00neimp0rtant

## within current branch, squashes all commits that are ahead of master down into one
## useful if you merged with upstream in the middle of your commits (rebase could get very ugly if this is the case)
 
## commit any working changes on branch "mybranchname", then...
git checkout master
git checkout -b mybranchname_temp
git merge --squash mybranchname
git commit -am "Message describing all squashed commits"
git branch -m mybranchname mybranchname_unsquashed
git branch -m mybranchname