Writing Open Source Software? Make Sure You Know Your Copyright Rights

Re:Writing Open Source Software? Make Sure You Know Your Cop... by tholmes on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @02:05PM (#5445009)

You have the right idea about pull but you're mixing up pull and pull request. Pull is a git verb that means to get code from another location. A pull request is asking someone else to get my changes.

So for an example, if you found a bug in some open source software you used you could make a change in the code that fixed it and then file a pull request with the original author of the software. This asks them to incorporate your changes.

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Re:Writing Open Source Software? Make Sure You Know Your Cop... by Nursie on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @02:15PM (#5445072)

Thanks, wasn't sure on that point! I assumed a pull request was someone asking you/your server if they could pull data from it, not requesting you/your server pull data from elsewhere.

Now I know.

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