[IPython-dev] pull requests

[Aaron Meurer]

You either have to pull from origin and push to a remote or push to
origin and pull from a remote (technically you can set it up so that
you push and pull to different urls, but that's way too complicated
for beginners).

One argument for cloning from the official repo is that you may not
have a fork. You just want to get the source code. You may fork it
later if you want to contribute a patch. To do it your way, in order
to be consistent with all your git repos (which is very important),
you have to fork every repo you want to clone. Furthermore, what if
you clone a git repo that's not on github? To remain consistent, you
have to somehow "fork" it to github before you clone it!

Aaron Meurer

> On Sep 19, 2013, at 10:44 AM, Brian Granger <ellisonbg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't agree with that.  It doesn't make sense for a user to have an
> origin that they can't push to.
>
>> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Aaron Meurer <asmeurer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> One thing I don't like about this guide is that it recommends that
>> people clone from their fork and add the official upstream as a
>> remote. But in my experience, it's much less confusing to git newbies
>> to clone from the original upstream and add their fork as a remote.
>>
>> Aaron Meurer
>>
>>>> On Sep 19, 2013, at 10:19 AM, "Stéfan van der Walt" <stefan at sun.ac.za> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 6:03 PM, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Yes, open a PR against master.  I don't know the provenance of those gitwash
>>>> docs, but they say several things that are not true. We should figure out if
>>>> we should update them to be accurate, or just remove them altogether (I
>>>> would be in favor of the latter).
>>>
>>> https://github.com/matthew-brett/gitwash
>>>
>>> Stéfan
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