Wes, yes, and most importantly you can commit to your fork. It takes a lot
of "Karma Points" before you can submit to the mainline. <smile/>
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Wesley Manning <wmann...@dynagen.ca> wrote:
> I’m actually quite familiar with git. Been using for about a year
> now. I was confused about the forking stuff as I never used codeplex
> before. So forking is just your own “isolated” repository so you can’t
> mess up the main one. I found this link that explains what to do with
> forking in codeplex like you said:
> http://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2012/04/02/working-with-forks-on-github-or-codeplex/
> .****
>
> ** **
>
> I think I understand now. J****
>
> ** **
>
> Wes****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* Heath Stewart [mailto:hea...@outlook.com]
> *Sent:* April-11-13 1:27 PM
>
> *To:* 'Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list'
> *Subject:* Re: [WiX-devs] Git flow****
>
> ** **
>
> Check out http://git-scm.com. It’s a great resource and has downloads to
> free ebooks (same thing as the web site in a different format).****
>
> ** **
>
> Generally, you create a branch (they’re lightweight), make and commit your
> changes, push your branch to your fork, then send a pull request from that
> branch to the tracking branch in the main repo.****
>
> ** **
>
> Git is very much design to branch on a whim. You can create a branch from
> any previous state in your commit history so you can have multiple trains
> of work. This is especially handy if you’re working on multiple bugs and/or
> features and don’t want to send one giant pull request or wait for your
> pull request to be merged (since any commits added to the remote branch get
> included in the pull request).****
>
> ** **
>
> *Heath Stewart*****
>
> VS Pro Deployment Experience, Microsoft
> http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* Wesley Manning [mailto:wmann...@dynagen.ca <wmann...@dynagen.ca>]
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 11, 2013 9:16 AM
> *To:* Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list
> *Subject:* [WiX-devs] Git flow****
>
> ** **
>
> So what is the flow now to summit changes? For mercurial forking seemed
> to create another repository but with git does the fork just create a
> branch?****
>
> ** **
>
> Wes****
>
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