Re: [gpsd-dev] Upcoming migration to GitLab

[Eric S. Raymond]

Fred Wright <address@hidden>:
> > If you know how to make MRs from a clone, you're set.  Do you?
> 
> The first step is to clone from a personal fork of the main repo, not the
> main repo itself.  Having done that, the general idea is to make changes in
> a local branch, push the branch to the fork, and then initiate the MR from
> the fork's webpage.
> 
> Personally, with any project hosted on a site with forking like GitHub or
> GitLab, I always make a fork, clone from the fork, and then add the main
> repo as 'upstream'.  Even if the only immediate goal is to examine and/or
> build the code, having the right setup for a later PR or MR is a plus.

Yes, that will undoubtedly work.

> I wonder if it confuses GitLab to have a project name, a repo name, and a
> group name that are all identical.

I've done this onn some of my other projects.  I have not observed it to cause 
problems.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>