Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #64142, comment 10


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Dec 16, 2021, 12:32:15 AM (3 years ago)
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  • Ticket #64142, comment 10

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    11@Renee and Ryan -- I apologize for messing up my first Pull Request (PR).  I am new to a DISTRIBUTED CVS like GitHib. In fact when I started to program in the 70s on mainframes using punch cards, CVS type systems did not even exist.
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    3 What confused me in the Macports Guide were the terms git and Github. In my view, the documentation should make it clear that the term `git` DOES NOT include a repo on `github.com`. (I am sure that experienced developers who use `git` and `Github` would not confuse the two. But that is not the case for `git` newbies). And unfortunately, the capabilities of GitHub.com is more limited than a local git repo (as I just discovered).  e.g One cannot amend a commit on GitHub.com without amending the commit on a local git repo and pushing the changes to GitHib.com. 
     3What confused me in the Macports Guide were the terms git and Github. In my view, the documentation should make it clear that the term `git` DOES NOT include a repo on `github.com`. (I am sure that experienced developers who use `git` and `Github` would not confuse the two. But that is not the case for `git` newbies). And unfortunately, the capabilities of GitHub.com is more limited than a local git repo (as I just discovered).  e.g One cannot amend a commit on GitHub.com without amending the commit on a local git repo and pushing the changes to GitHub.com. 
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    55For Macports Pull Requests, it looks like one needs to clone the Macports GitHub repo to a local git repo on their own Mac, make a branch, make changes, commit, rebase etc and then make a Pull Request (PR) from the branch of the local git repo to the Macport Github site. And optionally one can push one's changes from the local git repo to one's personal GitHub.com repo (which was presumably forked or cloned from the Macports GitHub repo earlier).