Re: ANN: Awesome-Ada

[Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>]

Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:
> Olivier Henley <olivier.henley@gmail.com> writes:
>> $ git clone https://github.com/ohenley/awesome-ada.git (you just
>> cloned the repo)
>
> $ cd awesome-ada (you are now in the cloned repo)
>
>> $ git checkout -b my-branch-to-edit-the-awesome-ada (you just created
>> a personalized branch)
>
> ------------------
>
> I'd support your suggestion to use Github. I used to be a
> Mercurial/Sourceforge person, but (a) Git is a lot more capable than Hg,
> even if there are some facilities that are too capable for mere mortals,
> and (b) Github itself is much more responsive and capable than SF.
>
> I didn't know it was possible to let J. Random Hacker push a new branch
> to your repo! I thought you had to fork on Github, push to your own
> repo, & make the pull request from there. Agreed that this is a workflow
> that you have to _really_ _want_ to make work, until you're used to it,
> when it seems like the way Nature intended. :-)

In the example above, the user isn't pushing a branch to your repo.
`git clone` creates a copy of your repo, and the user creates a new
branch in that copy.  The user can then create a "pull request", which
lets you propagate the new branch to your original repo, but only if you
choose to accept it.  Nobody can modify your repo without your
permission.

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