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I'm working with a friend on a little project hosted at github.
What is special about this project is that we would like to use lots of orphan branches. But it seems we can't do pull request for such branches!?
Github complains that the branches don't have a common history (which of course is true).
So the question is: How do I 'copy/pull' a complete orphan branch from one repository to another?
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Abandon or reactivate a pull requestOpen a pull request in the web portal. On the Overview page, select Abandon. To open the PR in the web portal, use the procedure from Complete a pull request. To abandon a PR without merging the changes, use az repos pr update --id <PR Id> –-status abandoned .
While you can send pull requests from any branch or commit, with a topic branch you can push follow-up commits if you need to update your proposed changes. Be very careful when force pushing commits to a pull request. Force pushing changes the repository history and can corrupt your pull request.
I don't see how a pull request could work, but here is what you can do:
Clone the target repository to your local computer.
create and checkout a new orphan branch
merge the remote branch orphan branch into the local orphan branch
push it to the target repository.
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