+ [2016-12-16T11:35:58Z] multifractal Or should they each have their own repo?
+ [2016-12-16T11:36:23Z] multifractal I would like to be able to make incremental updates to each thing1, thing2..., and not risk destroying them.
+ [2016-12-16T11:38:20Z] multifractal As far as I can tell, if there was a repo BIG_PROJ with branches for thing1, thing2, thing3... each of the thingi's would need sub-branches of their own, to maintain version control. Is this correct
+ [2016-12-16T11:41:02Z] multifractal Wait no that's not correct -- I could just have a main (stable) branch for BIG_PROJ and then a development branch where I work on each thing_i as and when I need to. When I'm confident that they work, I can merge it back to the stable BIG_PROJ branch. Correct?
+ [2016-12-16T11:43:33Z] multifractal That is to say -- it's not good practice to make branches for different features of the project. Rather branches should reflect different levels of the development cycle - stable, dev, release, etc.?

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Posted by multifractal in #github at 2016-12-16T11:41:02Z

Wait no that's not correct -- I could just have a main (stable) branch for BIG_PROJ and then a development branch where I work on each thing_i as and when I need to. When I'm confident that they work, I can merge it back to the stable BIG_PROJ branch. Correct?
+ [2016-12-17T17:43:14Z] damnation Hi. been trying this for a while, but new to GH. Can somebody tell me if I can make edits to a pull request of somebody else and how? (https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/pull/2166)
+ [2016-12-17T18:55:33Z] linuxmodder damnation, edits in what sense
+ [2016-12-17T18:56:36Z] linuxmodder directly depends on that persons settigns but most times forks are allowed which you could edit and do a PR ( pull request) to the main repo
+ [2016-12-17T20:21:29Z] quesker it is showing my full name on the commit message. how do I turn that off?
+ [2016-12-17T20:22:56Z] preaction configure git to not use your name. but why?