I'm pretty sure pull requests close over the current branch revision, so
there's no way to post ipso facto modify them from the sender's perspective.

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On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Shawn Heisey <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 1/4/2014 9:23 AM, Jan Høydahl wrote:
> > Another beauty of PRs (at least at GitHub) is that the contributor can
> > continue improving the fix in his branch through small incremental
> > commits, and this will be included in the pull without the need for
> > another PR.
>
> This actually might be considered a detriment.  Let's say that you're
> someplace you can review a change but not apply it.  So you review it
> and determine that it's good.  Then the patch creator changes it in a
> way that you don't find acceptable, but still passes all the tests.
>
> Later, when you arrive at home/work/other and can actually do something
> with it, is there any obvious way for you to know that it has changed
> and needs another review?  If at that point you pull the change, commit
> it locally, and push it to the repo, it won't be what you've already
> reviewed.
>
> Of course, a smart committer won't ever push anything without a
> comprehensive final review, but everyone has times when they are in a
> rush to get things done.
>
> I'm wondering if my +1 might have been a little hasty. :)
>
> Thanks,
> Shawn
>
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