Got it.  It took me a while because this is backwards from the way I used
to use Git for my software projects.  That's not to say anything is wrong
with it!  There are all sorts of ways to use Git.  I'm just getting used to
the Mutopia way of doing things.


Knute Snortum
(via Gmail)


On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Glen Larsen <glenl....@gmail.com> wrote:

> Of course this will work --- "master" is a branch like any other branch
> and you could specify "master" in your pull request. It is not recommended
> practice because:
>
>    - You now have to wait until that pull request is processed to submit
>    other work
>    - If you now create a branch that change is part of the new branch
>    - You are presuming that your pull will be accepted
>    - Ideally, you want the master in your fork repository to always match
>    the fork in the upstream master.
>
> Creating a branch is cheap and mostly convenient. And yes, I understand
> the difficulty of multiple development branches where you want some bit of
> code from a sibling branch.
>
> Even in my own personal projects I don't ever edit in the master branch.
>
>
> [ ... snipped ... ]
>
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