Re: git doesn't like me anymore

[Dario Lombardo <lomato () gmail com>]

Hi Fulko
Git can look really confusing at the beginning especially for people with
long time experience on other code revision systems such as SVN (as it was
for me).
There are 2 things to take into account.
The first one is git itself. That includes commands such as commit, push,
pull, remote etc. That's the most technical part. There are a bunch of
online crash courses you can find. I'd suggest code school's. It is short
and has 2 parts: basic and advanced. You should watch the videos from both,
since advanced is not really out-of-scope.
The second one is the so-called "fork workflow". This is the workflow that
is used on github, gitlab, bitbucket and so on that is the popular model in
which people fork (aka create a copy) of a public repo, make changes on
their repo (so-called downstream) and then request a merge (merge request
or pull request) on the original repo (so-called upstream). You can find a
bunch of tutorials on this workflow, like
https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/comparing-workflows/forking-workflow.
This is less technical than the above point but is much more logical: if
you don't understand the workflow, you will get lost. If you read a manual
of "straight git" you will get lost.
My personal experience: steep learning curve, then a lot satisfactory.
I Hope it helps.
Dario.


On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 12:44 AM Fulko Hew <fulko.hew () gmail com> wrote:

> The subject line says it all, but it doesn't say why.
> git and I just don't seem to understand one another.
>
> I've made a new dissector, and I went through the whole process
> to clone the repo, add/change my stuff, resync it, and submit
> my merge request.  Now the approver(s) asked for some changes,
> and although I disagreed with the need for the last one, I've
> now made that enhancement too, and want to commit it and have
> it merged.
>
> But now after doing the 'git commit -a', the instructions say
> I need to do 'git push downstream HEAD', but that returns the
> error messages:
>
> fatal: 'downstream' does not appear to be a git repository
> fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
>
> Please make sure you have the correct access rights
> and the repository exists.
>
>
> I'll admit, I don't understand git, let alone how to use it,
> so I need help on what I need to do to get past this issue.
>
> Thanks
> Fulko
>
>
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