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

Subject: Re: [boost] [git] Write permission to branch
From: Bjørn Roald (bjorn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-08 13:22:29

On 12/08/2013 05:54 PM, John Maddock wrote:
... unless there's some way to convert local
> modifications into a fork?

The fork on GitHub is just a clone of the repository, much like the one 
you have changes in. It is a so-called /bare/ repository, i.e.: there 
are no checked out files - just the  .git folder content. Since you are 
the owner of this repository, you can push your feature/whatever branch 
changes to it.

git push <your-github-fork-url> feature/whatever

See https://help.github.com/articles/pushing-to-a-remote

You can also change the origin remote reference in you local repository 
for convenience:

git remote set-url origin <your-github-fork-url>

or, if you like, keep origin and make a new convenient remote reference

git remote add fork <your-github-fork-url>

With the latter you may push your feature/whatever branch to the "fork" 
remote rather than the default "origin" like this:

git push fork feature/whatever

The GitHub fork provide is a public place the maintainer can pull from. 
  Any other public repository you have write access to and the 
maintainer could have pulled from may have done the same service - 
namely hosting a public accessible repository.

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Bjørn