On Tuesday 11 October 2011 22:11:15 Buddy Burden wrote:
Guys,
So, I found a bug in a CPAN module that hadn't been updated in some
time. After I submitted a bug in RT, I checked the author's other
modules and his RT tickets: no activity in years. So I sent the
author an email, and said,
* David Precious dav...@preshweb.co.uk [2011-10-12 11:15]:
Out of interest, did you try asking the original author whether he has
a repo knocking around he'd be willing to share with you, so you can
maintain history?
That would be ideal.
I'm not entirely sure that would be worth the effort,
David,
Out of interest, did you try asking the original author whether he has a repo
knocking around he'd be willing to share with you, so you can maintain
history?
I must admit, I did not. Primarily because I was trying to keep my
message very short and not ask for much. From my Googling
* Buddy Burden barefootco...@gmail.com [2011-10-12 22:00]:
I didn't know if somehow GitHub would consider my repo to be a fork
forever-more
If you use the fork button in the web interface, it will.
If you really don’t want that, you can avoid it by cloning the GitPAN
repo with git, creating
