[Mono-dev] I'm probably extending the delay on my pull request by doing this, but..

[Rafael Teixeira]

You should not fork a repo many times (it is too expensive and cumbersome),
just create local branches, and pull from each one separately to the remote
repo.

Rafael "Monoman" Teixeira
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On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Rob Wilkens <robwilkens at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Help!  I followed the directions in the webpage to create another fork of
> the main mono branch, and it seemed to work -- but from what i can tell i
> won't be able to do a pull request in the end...  Should i just submit
> future patches from this fork in the mailing list?
>
> -Rob
>
>
> On 06/05/2012 11:27 AM, Rob Wilkens wrote:
>
> On 06/05/2012 07:34 AM, Andres G. Aragoneses wrote:
>
> On 05/06/12 02:26, Rob Wilkens wrote:
>
> I submitted two unrelated fixes on the same pull request today which had
> other fixes queued. I know that makes it more complicated to pull in the
> changes if they're determined to be acceptable in the end
>
>
> To prevent this, I recommend that you create a branch for each bug or
> feature you're working on. This way each of your pull requests can be based
> on a different branch and then you manage to achieve separation of concerns
> cleanly.
>
>
> I'm trying that now using this documentation:
>
> http://alt.adrianshort.co.uk/blog/2011/11/08/create-multiple-forks-of-a-github-repo/
>
> Hopefully that's all i need to do this, because github wouldn't let me
> refork the original without my changes.
>
>
>
>
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