Question

I forked a project on GitHub. Being a pure Java source, I had to adapt it to turn it into an eclipse project before working on it. I made 3 commits to reflect these changes.

I then finished adapting the actual program, and I want to send a pull-request back to the developer requesting these changes.

My commit history is as follows:

• Commits #1, #3 and #4 are eclipse based and should not be sent.
• #2, #5, #6, #7 and #8 are source related and should be sent.

How do I send a pull-request omitting #1, #3 and #4?

Answer 1

You should have a separate branch of development for each of these features – “eclipse project” and “feature implementation”. Then send a pull request for the “feature implementation” back to the source.

Since you have not done that, you can cut a branch called feature from the point where you cloned and cherry-pick commits 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8. Then send a pull request for this branch.