From d18bb96e880fe488d552404afeb25a0b30a69db4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 01:52:41 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Make pull-request sentence less ambiguous (#21802) --- docs/docsite/rst/community.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/docsite/rst/community.rst b/docs/docsite/rst/community.rst index 5d08a95282..fd00eea864 100644 --- a/docs/docsite/rst/community.rst +++ b/docs/docsite/rst/community.rst @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ In order to keep the history clean and better audit incoming code, we will requi contain merge commits. Use ``git pull --rebase`` (rather than ``git pull``) and ``git rebase`` (rather than ``git merge``). Also be sure to use topic branches to keep your additions on different branches, such that they won't pick up stray commits later. -If you make a mistake you do not need to close your PR, create a clean branch locally and then push to GitHub +If you make a mistake you do not need to close your PR. Instead, create a clean branch locally and then push to GitHub with ``--force`` to overwrite the existing branch (permissible in this case as no one else should be using that branch as reference). Code comments won't be lost, they just won't be attached to the existing branch.