Re: [boost] [git] Write permission to branch

Subject: Re: [boost] [git] Write permission to branch
From: Klaim - Joël Lamotte (mjklaim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-08 12:48:02

On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 5:54 PM, John Maddock <john_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> If you're planning to submit a pull-request to the maintainer, then I
> believe you need to fork the repo and push to the fork... which is not as
> easy as it could be... unless there's some way to convert local
> modifications into a fork?

I believe git have a tool to generate a patch from changes between two
changesets.
However I never use it so I'm not sure how it works.

If the project is on github it's still far easier to just click the fork
button, copy the fork address and paste it in command line to push your
changes there.