How can I merge just the first commit of a pull request?-CodePudding

My Github repository has received a pull request consisting of several commits. I only want to accept the first of these. Is there any way I can do this without asking the PR author to change their PR?

The PR was sent a long time ago and I've been unable to reach the author. I realise that I could just create a new commit myself, but I'd prefer to have the original commit author's name on the commit.

CodePudding user response：

I'd prefer to have the original commit author's name on the commit.

Nice and polite!

The first approach: create a commit and artificially assign it to a different author using git commit --author=<author>. You can even change author's date to the date of the commit at GH: --date=<date>.

The second approach is: fetch the PR from GH to a local branch and merge/cherry-pick one commit from the branch:

git fetch origin pull/$ID/head:pr-$ID # fetch the PR into branch pr-$ID
git log pr-$ID # view commits and find the one
git merge $COMMIT_ID

PS. Next time please use search.