Forking Versions

[Mike Kerner]

wow, what a pain.

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Monte Goulding <monte at sweattechnologies.com>
wrote:

> Oh, you also need to add the official repo as a remote on your fork:
>
> git remote add upstream https://github.com/livecode/livecode.git <
> https://github.com/livecode/livecode.git>
>
> This adds the official repo as a remote named upstream which is the normal
> name of the original repo when you have a fork. Your fork is called origin.
> What you want to do is pull the changes from upstream (the company repo),
> make commits and push them to origin (your fork). If you have anything to
> contribute you can then send a pull request which is basically a request
> for them to merge in the changes on a branch on your fork into the official
> repo.
>
> Now that you have added upstream as a remote you want to set the upstream
> of each of the official branches that you have checked out. Say you have
> checked out develop (livecode 8) then you want to do this:
>
> git branch --set-upstream develop upstream/develop
>
> This means that when you checkout develop and pull it will automatically
> pull from the upstream remote (the company repo) rather than your origin
> remote (your fork).
>
> Anyway I hope that helps ;-)
>
> > On 9 Oct 2015, at 5:55 am, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > 1) In Git, if I have a fork, but then there are updates to the master
> > branch, and I want to take those and replace at least some of the
> contents
> > in my fork, do I have to create a new fork and download the entire
> project,
> > again?  That seems like it would screw up the things I've been working on
> > in my fork, and mean that I would have to manually re-integrated the
> things
> > I'm doing in the files I'm working on.
> >
> > 2) I've been messing around with various widgets, but I'm not messing
> with
> > the engine, but there does not seem to be a way to fork part of the
> project
> > without forking all of it.
> >
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-- 
On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth
On the second day, God created the oceans.
On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours,
   and did a little diving.
And God said, "This is good."