On 22/04/2015 08:20, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
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If you're forking a project on Github you get your own copy of the project. The
projects
are linked but the repositories are not. What I mean by that is on your fork
you'll see
that it is a fork with a link back to the original project. From the original
project you
can also view all forks.
The repositories are not linked in the sense that there's no automatic syncing
of code
between them. The fork needs to manually pull from the original repository to
get the
latest changes.
I guess the word "link" has too many meanings. :p
So a fork is really a working copy of the master repository, and the code that the user
will typically edit is in turn a working copy of this. And "commit" and "push" in Git
terms basically mean to commit to the local fork and to commit the fork to the master repo
respectively.
So if "pull" means to update one's fork, what is a "pull request" requesting
exactly?
Stewart.
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