Re: [matplotlib-devel] MEP9: interactivity

[Daniel H. <dh...@gm...>]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:

> On 2012/08/17 8:45 AM, Daniel Hyams wrote:
> > I was planning to just create my own branch to start putting code in,
> > but would it be better for an admin to create a branch off of master in
> > the main matplotlib repo (say MEP9)?  Then whoever wants to help out
> > with MEP9 can branch from that and issue pull requests against it?
>
> People can already do that by forking your repo (which you forked from
> master), and issuing pull requests against your MEP9 branch within it.
> The difference is that in the latter case, you are the only one who can
> merge a pull request.  I think this will have some advantages, including
> giving you more freedom to do things like rebase and force-push, which
> we would not want to do in the main repo.
>
> Eric



OK, thanks Eric.  I'll try my best not to let my git-ignorance "git" in the
way too much ;)