From 5c78d44d22d3ab4b469cc531ac19ec7b3e80d830 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Elling Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 17:30:55 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] added info for why we recommend managing remotes --- Git-and-GitHub-for-beginners.md | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Git-and-GitHub-for-beginners.md b/Git-and-GitHub-for-beginners.md index f859ad4..25ef012 100644 --- a/Git-and-GitHub-for-beginners.md +++ b/Git-and-GitHub-for-beginners.md @@ -21,7 +21,10 @@ The easiest way to get started is to click the fork icon at the top of the main git clone https://github.com//zfs.git ``` -Then we need to establish the upstream repository link: +This sets the "origin" repository to your fork. This will come in handy +when creating pull requests. To make pulling from the "upstream" repository +as changes are made, it is very useful to establish the upstream repository +as another remote (man git-remote): ``` cd zfs