[Dancer-users] Help with github, please

[Brian E. Lozier]

It occurs to me that it would be nice to have links to both of these
pages on your contribute page:

http://perldancer.org/contribute


On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Nick Knutov <mail at knutov.com> wrote:
> I'm also understand nothing about git, but
> http://advent.perldancer.org/2010/24 can help, I think.
>
>
> On 23.03.2011 4:38, Brian E. Lozier wrote:
>>
>> I wrote a tiny patch and I want to make a pull request on github.  I'm
>> confused as to how I'm supposed to be doing this because of a few
>> things, but now mostly because I don't know how github works.
>>
>> Originally I used the fork button on github to fork the Dancer
>> project.  That got me "master" I think.  I made a change, committed
>> it, pushed it back to the server, and then issued a pull request.
>> This was a month ago or so.  Then xsawyerx notified me that the pull
>> request was approved and all was well until now when I have another
>> patch.  I made another patch on my same branch and issued another pull
>> request, but it pulled in again the original change I had made, so it
>> looks like it didn't detect (somehow, I'm not sure how this is
>> supposed to work) that my original change had already been pulled in.
>>
>> So I deleted my fork of the Dancer repo and started again with a new
>> fork.  I tried to follow the instructions here:
>> http://help.github.com/fork-a-repo/ on forking and doing pull
>> requests.  After I forked I cloned to my local machine and then
>> followed the instructions on "git remote add upstream" that would
>> supposedly "track upstream" which I don't quite understand.  When I
>> did that it put me in the "devel" branch and my "master" branch
>> disappeared.  When I do git branch I get this list:
>>
>> * devel
>>
>> And that's it...
>>
>> So I checked in my change and pushed this *devel branch and I want to
>> do a pull request.  Is this correct?  What happens when/if my change
>> is accepted?  How do I make github not include it on the next pull
>> request?
>>
>> If I am doing something wrong please correct me.  As you can tell I'm
>> not very familiar with git and github (although I've been using cvs
>> and svn for a really long time).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brian
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