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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> >> <a href="https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests/">https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests/</a> <BR> <BR>Aha, so we can please use the "shared repository model"?<br>I'll try pushing a change later and see if I'm already allowed.<BR> <BR><br>I too had developed a severe case of "Stockholm syndrome" with CVS -- learning to like your captors.<br>I could tell it was awful, but I understood it pretty well and could work within its limits.<BR><br> <BR>Thanks,<br> - Jay<br><br> <BR><div>> From: rcolebur@SCIRES.COM<br>> To: m3devel@elegosoft.com<br>> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 00:10:30 +0000<br>> Subject: Re: [M3devel] getting started with git?<br>> <br>> I must confess that I am totally lost at this point wrt github.<br>> I understood what was going on with CVS and used TortoiseCVS to make it easy to keep my local repo up-to-date and submit changes to the repository.<br>> I need to spend some time learning the new system.<br>> Can someone point me to the "fast start" web pages so I can figure out what I need to do.<br>> <br>> Also, I am losing this email address before the end of the year, so I need to transition all my cm3 mail list subscriptions to a new email address. I don't want to post that address here, but if someone can tell me who to contact to make the change, I would appreciate it.<br>> <br>> Thanks,<br>> Randy Coleburn<br>> <br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: Olaf Wagner [mailto:wagner@elego.de] <br>> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 12:13 PM<br>> To: rodney.m.bates@acm.org<br>> Cc: m3devel@elegosoft.com<br>> Subject: EXT:Re: [M3devel] getting started with git?<br>> <br>> On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 08:29:29 -0600<br>> "Rodney M. Bates" <rodney_bates@lcwb.coop> wrote:<br>> <br>> > I'm pretty new at git too, so my impressions are tenuous<br>> > <br>> > On 12/10/2014 06:20 AM, Jay K wrote:<br>> [...]<br>> > > I submit a pull request?<br>> > > I haven't figured out how.<br>> > <br>> > 'pull' is a git command you can issue locally, naming the remote repo <br>> > (and the branch) you want to pull from. With the remote repo URL <br>> > omitted, it pulls from the one you originally cloned from. That is <br>> > remembered somewhere locally. You can examine/edit the URL with some <br>> > command, I think 'remote'. (push defaults to this URL too.)<br>> > <br>> > What I have been unable to do is get an explicit repo URL in a pull or <br>> > push command to work. Every spelling I try either silently and <br>> > immediately returns a prompt, with no evidence anything happened, or <br>> > gives a error message criticizing the repo URL as if it were supposed <br>> > to be a branch name or something other than a URL..<br>> > <br>> > > And who handles them?<br>> > > Or it is automatic? But how to stop arbitrary edits then?<br>> > <br>> > I am quite certain it is not automatic. You have to explicitly pull.<br>> > <br>> > Somebody else with their own local repo can push it to yours, but you <br>> > have to have given them permission somehow. I doubt the github repo <br>> > will ever get pushed to yours.<br>> <br>> You're talking about two different things. See https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests/<br>> for pull requests on github, wile 'git pull' is just a combination of 'git fetch' and 'git merge':<br>> <br>> http://git-scm.com/docs/git-pull<br>> <br>> I'm not sure if the small number of m3 developers will need pull requests for their collaboration.<br>> <br>> Olaf<br>> --<br>> Olaf Wagner -- elego Software Solutions GmbH -- http://www.elegosoft.com <br>> Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25 / Gebäude 12, 13355 Berlin, Germany<br>> phone: +49 30 23 45 86 96 mobile: +49 177 2345 869 fax: +49 30 23 45 86 95<br>> Geschäftsführer: Olaf Wagner | Sitz: Berlin<br>> Handelregister: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 77719 | USt-IdNr: DE163214194<br></div> </div></body>
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