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Re: updating github.com forks, developing in remote branches and svn:eol-style equiv?

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TAThomas Anderson <zelnaga@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 28, 2010, 17:07 UTC
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On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 2:25 AM, Alexander Iljin <ajsoft@yandex.ru> wrote:
>  You should do it the way you described - via local repository, because you
>  might need to resolve conflicts along the way.
>  There is the "Fork Queue" feature on GitHub, you may give it a try.

In playing around with their Fork Queue feature... I have a week old fork to which I've made no changes. I do "Select All" for al the changes in teh original fork and then select "Apply" in the drop down "Actions" menu. It then just sits there doing nothing. It says "Status: Processing 1 of 8 Commits" and that's it. Shouldn't it actually be doing something?

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>  To have a local branch you should create it:
>  git checkout -b branchName remotes/origin/branchName
>  Remote branches are there only to track the state of the remote repo,
>  you should only commit to local branches and then push your work to
>  remotes.

I think I figured out some of my confusion - there's a "Create New Branch" checkbox in the "Checkout\Switch" dialog that needs to be checked that isn't by default. I guess the idea is that, by default, TortoiseGit assumes you want to make the branch you checkout the default branch?

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