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From: | Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate |
Subject: | Re: [gpsd-dev] Upcoming migration to GitLab |
Date: | Tue, 28 May 2019 14:16:18 -0500 |
Fred Wright <address@hidden>:
> > If you know how to make MRs from a clone, you're set. Do you?
>
> The first step is to clone from a personal fork of the main repo, not the
> main repo itself. Having done that, the general idea is to make changes in
> a local branch, push the branch to the fork, and then initiate the MR from
> the fork's webpage.
>
> Personally, with any project hosted on a site with forking like GitHub or
> GitLab, I always make a fork, clone from the fork, and then add the main
> repo as 'upstream'. Even if the only immediate goal is to examine and/or
> build the code, having the right setup for a later PR or MR is a plus.
Yes, that will undoubtedly work.
> I wonder if it confuses GitLab to have a project name, a repo name, and a
> group name that are all identical.
I've done this onn some of my other projects. I have not observed it to cause
problems.
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