How can I make separate pull-requests for each commit in GitHub?

Question

I made two changes on a project in GitHub (two commits). How can I create two different pull requests from my changes?

I only found a way to create one big pull request that includes all my changes: https://github.com/tcatm/ffmap-d3/pull/22

I know that in the desktop GUI for GitHub, you can select which files to commit. This way you could select some files, make a pull request, then select the rest, and make another pull request. I have done this on the Mac OSX version of GitHub (I cannot be sure if it is do-able on the Windows version) — Chris Mukherjee
– Chris Mukherjee, Commented Jun 21, 2013 at 5:00
I thought of that, but I already committed both changes. I missed to create a pull request before committing the second changes. Do I have to revert the second commit, create the first pull request and then re-commit hte second changes? — rubo77
– rubo77, Commented Jun 21, 2013 at 5:36

Stuart Cardall · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-03 17:09:53Z

Create a new branch:

git checkout master git checkout -b mybranch ... make changes ... git add myfile git commit git push -u origin mybranch

Then create a pull request and change the last compare button on github to mybranch

rubo77 · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-27 08:45:34Z

You can easily solve this with the SmartGit/hg GUI:

open the log of the master branch
right-click on the first revision from the time, you forked the main project and create a new branch from there
switch into that branch in the left bottom corner with right-click
cherry-pick the revisions you want to make a separate pull request and commit them as one commit
push your new branch up on GitHub
there you can create a pull request from just that branch

for the second pull request, you create a new branch and do the same with it

Chris Mukherjee · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-21 05:14:27Z

Here are some screenshots taken from the Mac OSX version of the GitHub desktop program.

Here I am making the first commit, but you can see both changes have been made prior to the commit: Commit #1

Here I am making the second commit: Commit #2

Here you can see that each commit was accepted individually: Overview

Assuming that the Windows version of GitHub has the same options, I would download the desktop program and try that.

no, I clarified it in a comment to the main question. By the way: (not really unfortunately) I use only Linux, and there seems no gitHub GUI yet

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