[dmd-internals] [phobos] Please rename your remote github repos

[Daniel Murphy]

The pull is now done with the full repo url, completely bypassing any
stored remotes.


On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Leandro Lucarella <luca at llucax.com.ar>wrote:

> So, what's the status of this. If anything fails because the user name
> a remote whatever they want, then something is broken. You shouldn't
> force users to name their remotes in any way!
>
>
> Daniel Murphy, el 28 de December a las 18:21 me escribiste:
> > On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 5:17 PM, H. S. Teoh <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 07:55:34PM -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> > > > We've been using the remote name "upstream" instead of the default
> > > > "origin", and that's quickly becoming lava (some people first clone
> > > > our repos and then try to use update.sh etc leading to confusion).
> > > >
> > > > So we should just use "upstream" for the mothership and call it a
> > > > day. Each of us has their own fork for which I don't know of a
> > > > standardized name (I call mine "myfork").
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > I'm confused. I've had the tools repo forked and checked out, and I
> > > haven't had a problem:
> > >
> > > $ git remote -v
> > > origin  git at github.com:quickfur/tools.git (fetch)
> > > origin  git at github.com:quickfur/tools.git (push)
> > > upstream
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/tools.git(fetch)
> > > upstream        https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/tools.git(push)
> > > $
> > >
> > > So what exactly am I supposed to rename here?
> > >
> > >
> > This is all correct, you should rename nothing, unless you want to.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > At least as far as github conventions go (I can't speak for git users
> in
> > > general), your fork is usually tied to 'origin', and 'upstream' refers
> > > to the where it forked from. Usually, you'd pull from 'upstream' (the
> > > 'official' repo, to get the latest updates), and push to 'origin' (your
> > > fork, e.g., when making pull requests, or just syncing your fork to the
> > > latest official repo).
> > >
> > >
> > Exactly.
>
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