How challenges, road blocks, and mistakes can lead to fruitful progress as a web designer or developer
March 25th, 2020
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The other day, one of my students was having problems pushing his
local repository source code to his remote Github repository. He
also needed guidance in organizing his repository content. I
worked with him in organizing his repository content into
different folders by doing the following:
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I forked his repository. Yes! Forking was revisited!
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I git cloned the fork to my laptop.
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I made the necessary organizational changes to the project content.
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I made sure to git pull upstream master (the branch in question) for (potential) changes that might have been made by him on remote after my last upstream update without my knowledge.
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I pushed my changes to my forked repository.
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I created a pull request on his original repository.
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He merged that pull request.
The key to all this is, that we coordinated the pull request. I made
sure that he did not push any more changes to remote, because
that might have resulted in merge conflicts! After he merged
the pull request, he could continue pushing changes to remote
without having to worry that I might be making changes to
the same content in my forked repository, and then create a
pull request. Road blocks organically evolved into his learning more
about a skill essential to any designer, developer, or any
other role in technology today. Git. It also indirectly AND
directly helps one become a better designer, developer, or
other related technology role. I love it when evolution of any sort is
organic! It just naturally happens. And that comes from
collaborative effort on both sides and a willingness (AND
eagerness) to learn. Most important of all, to get the job
done within a certain time frame!
I will be embedding this episode of Plugging in The Holes along with a transcript in the form of a post on interglobalmedianetwork.com for your hearing and reading pleasure. Bye for now!
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