Low-code contributions through GitHub | Quansight Labs

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Low-code contributions through GitHub | Quansight Labs

https://labs.quansight.org/blog/2021/09/low-code-contributions-through-GitHub/

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Before the event the contributor makes a pull request identifying files that need changes related to the prompt

Reading this blog post, it sounds like there's a way in GitHub to open a pull request that stages a bunch of files in the PR but without first making any changes to those files? Am I understanding that correctly? If so, how does one go about doing that? Is there a description of how to do that in the GitHub docs?

One more question about the mechanics of this. I'm guessing that part of the reward in doing this work during one of these workshops is that the participants get to see themselves in the list of contributors to a repo, is that right? Normally, when I contribute to a repo I like to squash a bunch of commits into one single commit before I close and merge a single PR, but when running an event like this, and for the purposes of tracking contributors, is it necessary to keep all of the commits by the various contributors on the pull request and not squash them down into one commit?