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When people first start contributing to a package one of the first major roadblocks is they likely have cloned the repo from the initial repo rather than from a fork. So they have to
rename the origin remote to upstream then add the new remote as origin
or burn it all down and re-clone from their fork, then add the origin as upstream later.
As far as I know there is no real way to do either step without needing command line git or something like Sourcetree, so it ends up being a pretty big hurdle for new contributors.
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use_git_remote() now makes this possible within R and the "remote rename dance" is one of the examples. It's possible we'll even provide more support in a hypothetical "unbork my fork" function (#618 Undo commits to a fork's master branch).
When people first start contributing to a package one of the first major roadblocks is they likely have cloned the repo from the initial repo rather than from a fork. So they have to
As far as I know there is no real way to do either step without needing command line git or something like Sourcetree, so it ends up being a pretty big hurdle for new contributors.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: