On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 11:25:17 -0500
Fleetwood Farm <[email protected]> wrote:

[...]
> I believe I am understanding it better already. I will need to reread
> it a few more times, and your provided links, to digest it all, but
> think I can see land through the fog now. I am never going to push my
> edits upstream as I just send email patches to be incorporated or not
> as deemed by the maintainer.

I would then pick rebasing as the strategy to maintain your local
changes.

> BTW, I branched my local style off of the cloned staging-testing.

I might not understand your terminology, but

1) You can't clone just a single branch.
   Git always clones full repositories.

   (Well, except when you perform a so-called "shallow" clone
   and explicitly tell Git which branch to consider to be of
   interest.  This is an advanced topic, to a degree.)

2) You can't fork a branch off the whole repository: any branch
   either starts being orhpan, which is really a special case,
   or it initially points to some existing commit -- 99.99% of all
   the normal cases.

Considering this, what do you call "staging-testing" -- a repository or
a branch in the cloned repository?

> I will respond back later with what I think may be my best course of
> action after further reading and thinking.

Sure, feel free to ask away for more details where needed.

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