[phobos] Push or pull?

[Jesse Phillips]

Just to try and state the same thing differently:

d-programming-language/phobos
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Fork: Sean/phobos

These are your remote repositories, yes two of them.

git clone Sean/phobos
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phobos: repository on local machine

Note that your local repository will then have a remote named origin

origin -> Sean/phobos

You will create branches and push those to origin as branches:

git push origin issue-XXX:issue-XXX

Your pull request will then come from Sean/phobos:issue-XXX to
d-programming-language/phobos:master

I realize this is hard to covey since there are 3 master branches
involved, two which are in a remote repository.

Example pull: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/4

Its branch: https://github.com/jmdavis/phobos/tree/5552

Pretty diagram: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/network

Hopefully this clears up how these all fit together.

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 09, 2011 10:18:12 Sean Kelly wrote:
>> On Feb 9, 2011, at 8:41 AM, Jesse Phillips wrote:
>> > The default is to have the request pulled into the master branch of
>> > your forked repository though, which usually is the desired location
>>
>> Is it really the desired location?  If I want to submit multiple pull
>> requests to a single project, I'd think that each one should be done from
>> a separate branch.  Using master as the default seems like it would work
>> against this.
>
> Making changes in your own repository on separate branches for each issue makes
> sense, but when the pull request for them is done and the changes are pushed
> into the main repository, I'd expect that to be to the master branch. So, the
> pull request would come _from_ a separate branch of your repository and go _to_
> the master branch of the main repository.