Hello Thomas, On 2016-10-12 14:46, Thomas Adam wrote: > This can't happen, and you're misunderstanding how the workflow happens.
Yes, this is certainly true. That's why I asked. :-) > You're not the first one to either. Tmux is developed as part of OpenBSD. > It's in the base system. OpenBSD uses CVS for all of its source code > management and they have their own servers. That explains a lot. > But once there, people are free to download and use it, and since it's GH they > can now also send through issues and pull-requests. The thing to bear in mind > is that it's a collection point only for feeding BACK INTO OPENBSD. I put > this in capitals so you understand its importance. Commiting *back* to > OpenBSD relies on Nicholas doing so as the commiter, and hence he is the > author. This is why he has to attriute patches to authors that way. Ok, I didn't know that. This also explains the way how dev is handled. > When changes go into OpenBSD then they're synched to tmux-portable on Github; > again, the attribution has come out of CVS which will almost always be > Nicholas (or someone else with commit-bit rights to the CVS repository). It all starts to make sense. > We do use PRs, by the way, but only as a means of gathering patches together. > Should you want to do that rather than using git-send-email, that's OK too. Yes, on some systems git-send depends on additional libs that are not always there. I happened to experience a dependency nightmare several times. > Hope this helps. Yes, I really appreciate the time for the elaborate explanation. Thank you. Cheers, K. C. -- regards Helmut K. C. Tessarek lookup http://sks.pkqs.net for KeyID 0xC11F128D /* Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer for chaos and madness await thee at its end. */ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tmux-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tmux-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to tmux-users@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
