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authorWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2016-09-25 13:09:57 +0200
committerWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2016-09-25 13:10:11 +0200
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Merge #8771: CONTRIBUTING: Mention not to open several pulls
faa91bc CONTRIBUTING: Mention not to open several pulls (MarcoFalke)
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@@ -87,6 +87,15 @@ before it will be merged. The basic squashing workflow is shown below.
# save and quit
git push -f # (force push to GitHub)
+If you have problems with squashing (or other workflows with `git`), you can
+alternatively enable "Allow edits from maintainers" in the right GitHub
+sidebar and ask for help in the pull request.
+
+Please refrain from creating several pull requests for the same change.
+Use the pull request that is already open (or was created earlier) to amend
+changes. This preserves the discussion and review that happened earlier for
+the respective change set.
+
The length of time required for peer review is unpredictable and will vary from
pull request to pull request.