> On Oct 25, 2016, at 6:54 AM, Rainer Müller <rai...@macports.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2016-10-25 10:36, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Oct 24, 2016, at 17:57, Clemens Lang <c...@macports.org> wrote:
>> 
>>>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 12:17:57AM +0200, Marko Käning wrote:
>>>> A description of how exactly one would rebase (potentially squash and
>>>> history-rewrite) a submitted PR onto current master should be on our
>>>> WorkingWithGit wiki page.
>>> 
>>> the easiest approach is just clicking the button that does this on
>>> GitHub. Of course there's also a way to do it from the command line.
>> 
>> We should document, with screenshots, the specific buttons that should be 
>> clicked to achieve this, for the benefit of those developers like me who are 
>> not that familiar with git and GitHub. 
> 
> Keeping such a documentation with screenshots updated to the current
> GitHub release seems excessive. The GitHub documentation already has
> screenshots. We should not try to recreate it, but rather place the
> links to the relevant sections.
> 
> https://help.github.com/articles/merging-a-pull-request/

As long as we don't just link, but in cases where their documentation offers 
multiple choices, tell the user which of those choices to use.


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