git_advanced-3.md

Git Advanced III

Author: alpha74

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Forking:

• It is a feature of Git hosting website.
• It means : Copying a remote repo to our own online account.
• Both are remote repo.
• upstream repo is considered the source of truth .
• Can be used to create a new source of truth .

Pull Requests:

• It is a feature of Git hosting sites.

• Goal is to merge a branch into project.

• Enable team communication.

• Need not edit the PR if new commits are added.

• Single Repo PR:

  • A remote repo and its clone is needed.

  • Steps:

    • Create a topic branch from base branch locally.
    • Work and push to remote repo using git push --set-upstream origin topic.
    • A PR will be created.

  • git push -d origin <topic>: Deletes topic branch from remote repo.

• Multi Repo PR:

  • A remote repo and a fork is needed.

  • Steps:

    • Fork the upstream repo.
    • Create a branch.
    • Create a PR.