Reply to post: Re: Forking right! ?

More than half of GitHub is duplicate code, researchers find

Steve the Cynic

Re: Forking right! ?

Um. I don't know who has failed on comprehension of github. I'm willing to accept that it's me, but isn't the process more like this?

* git clone the project on my local machine with the github repo as a "remote"

* create a branch and make my changes there.

* Usual software process guff about testing my changes.

* commit my changes to my local clone

* push my branch to the remote

*** Now my branch is on github's repo.

* Submit pull request

So there are two copies of the repo: one is on github's servers, the other on my machine.

Feel free to tell me how totally wrong what I just said is.

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