On 9. Oct 2018, at 19:38, Marshall Schor <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Still confused.
>
> It appears I can do
>
> git clone https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/maven-gpg-plugin.git OR
>
> git clone https://github.com/apache/maven-gpg-plugin
>
> Are these the same thing?
Yes and no :)
Yes: you'll end up with the same code in both cases because ASF GitBox syncs
with GitHub
No: in the first case the "remote" of your clone will be ASF gitbox and in the
second case,
the "remote" of your clone will be GitHub. In both cases, you could still
add the other
one as a second "remote" to your local clone. Both probably won't get you
far if you
want to contribute code because you likely have commit permissions to
neither of the two
repositories.
Because of that you'd probably first want to go to the GitHub website, fork the
"maven-gpg-plugin"
repo under your own GitHub account, then clone *that*. If you have already
cloned any of the
others, you can could create the fork and add it as another remote to your
local clone.
Then, you create a branch, and commit your changes to that branch and push it
to the
forked repo under your GitHub account. Once the changes have been pushed there,
you
create a "pull request" via the GitHub website.
Really, it sounds more complicated than it really is because there are so many
ways
that lead to more-or-less the same result, so I'll summarize the path of least
resistance
briefly:
1) fork repo on github
2) clone fork to your local pc
3) create branch
4) commit changes
5) push branch
6) create pull request
Cheers,
-- Richard
