Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Anyone know why this project encourages using a private fork to do contributing development?

> "Make a public fork of Huginn. [...] Make a private, empty GitHub repository called huginn-private. Duplicate your public fork into your new private repository[. ...] Checkout your new private repository. Add your Huginn public fork as a remote to your new private repository[. ...] When you want to contribute patches, do a remote push from your private repository to your public fork of the relevant commits, then make a pull request to this repository."



Just to let you keep any private changes private. Perhaps it's not the best recommendation.


Ah. It seems unnecessarily complicated for people trying to get started. Perhaps preface it with a note saying something like "if you'd like to keep your commits private, follow this brief guide" so it doesn't seem required?


I agree, thanks for pointing this out. I've extracted that section to the wiki.


Nice!

(For the record I can't wait to try out Huginn; I've been using Yahoo Pipes for years... I've apparently got one pipe from before when they started using only hex characters as pipe IDs.)




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: