On 2017-01-30 at 07:38, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 01/30/2017 01:32 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > >> If someone isn't cloning the repository locally, how is that >> someone creating the patch which is in the git repo which is >> requested to be pulled? > > Choose a random file in a random repository you are not allowed to > commit to. Click on the edit button. Ack that github will create a > fork to edit the file. Make your changes. Click on save and on create > a pull request... just a few clicks...
...bwah? I deleted my "unless github has incorporated an _editor interface_ now" comment, because I thought that was too tangential and off-the-wall to bring up even as a hypothetical. Are you saying that people are writing and submitting patches via a Web-based editor interface, and that you're recommending that people consider _accepting_ those patches, when they haven't even been _build-tested_ before submission (because you can't build-test - much less actually _test_ - without the full source tree, which you'd obtain by pulling the repo)? Maybe I'm missing something, or maybe I'm just backwards, but that sounds _insane_ to me. (I imagine it would be _possible_ to have a workflow of something like "clone the repo, edit and test locally, copy-and-paste the full contents of the edited source files one-by-one into the editor interface", just to avoid 'git push' - but that seems like overkill, and would still involve cloning the repo.) If github really is encouraging that sort of thing (by including such an editor interface) - as well as the "keep the only copy of your fork in the same centralized location as the original code" mindset implied by a don't-bother-to-clone-a-local-copy workflow - that leaves me considerably less comfortable with the idea of people using github than I used to be. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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