From: Gergely Polonkai
Hello,
during my GitHub based development (which is pretty much similar to what you just described) I do the following:
• fork the original repo, so that my GH account has a copy of it
• clone the forked repo to my machine
• add the original repo as a second remote and name it "base"

I like the name choice : "base". So the upstream remote repo is 'base', and the personal fork is 'origin'.

However I'm now using:
• clone the upstream repo to my machine (i.e. the opposite way around)
• fork the original repo on GH, so that my GH account has a copy of it
• add my GH fork as a second remote and name it "my".
So the upstream remote repo is 'origin', and the personal fork is 'my'.

This helps when others give commands that assume origin == upstream, and 'my' is short and easy to remember!

YMMV.

• start my feature branch off of base/master: git checkout -b myfeature base/master. This way, git status tells you immediately if my brange has diverged from upstream • code-code-code, occasionally pushing my feature branch to my fork (origin) • if the coding takes longer than a day, I sometimes fetch from base, and rebase my work to base/master.

Agreed. The rebasing becomes essential if there is a long review & refinement period

This way my feature branch remains up to date, and less polluted. This, though, requires me to force push to my fork (origin/myfeature) after the rebase; if this would cause problems, I tag ORIG_HEAD just in case, but still force push.

If I create a pull request on GH I will typically tag the old PR tip, so that when I force push and update I can refer to it's previous version (so those who are reviewing the GH repo can see both old and new versions; GH update the PR to the newly forced branch tip!)

Hope it helped.

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Philip
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