> > >> On 6 Mar 2019, at 16:08, Sean P. DeNigris <s...@clipperadams.com >> <mailto:s...@clipperadams.com>> wrote: >> >> cedreek wrote >>> Still havent get my head around this FORK/PR cycle but I will for sure one >>> day :) >> >> It took me quite a while to grok. Fork = 'personal remote clone' and: [ PR = >> 'UI support for discussing, testing, and accepting commits’ ]
I got the basic idea but just need to dive in this ’troubling’ water ^^ Quite complex but I know this is powerful. > > It took me even longer to realise that when you load your master branch - you > still need to pull changes from the original unforked repository (into your > local repository) and then push them back up to your fork, AND then branch to > make a change. For ages I was was getting unrelated diff changes even though > I thought I had started on “master”. > > I’m hoping there will be a talk about all of this at Pharo Days. When you get > it right its awesome - but when you take a mis-step its quite confusing until > you realise what the pieces mean. (And I’m sure I still have the model wrong, > but its fun learning more each day) Yes this kind of small tips are really important to not being confused. And that is what’s confusing. I think maybe what we miss would be a tutorial and a sandbox project so people can play with (quite intimidating to do his first PR the wrong way). Cheers, Cédrick > > Tim >
