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Keeping a fork up to date

Attending the "Getting Started with Open Source" talk at RC today, inspired me to finally figure out how to keep forks up-to-date.

Always make your changes in a branch
- this way, you can,
  - keep the main branch of the fork in sync with upstream
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Taken from slides from the "Getting Started with Open Source" talk at RC

Fork and clone
Create a new branch
- git checkout -b branchName
- or git switch -c branchName ([more info][0])
Do the fix
Commit the changes

Switch to main or master branch in local repo
- git checkout main or git switch main
Fetch and merge changes from origin
- git pull origin main

Sources

By using virtualenv, can avoid installing modules globally

create a clean virtualenv
install only the modules needed to run project
run pip freeze to generate a requirements.txt file
- list of all installed packages and their versions

	# Dubious ... may be hard for person to read... but for computer both identical...
	chars = 'AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz0123456789!-.~@'
	html = [
	'A','a','B','b','C','c','D','d','E','e','F','f','G',
	'g','H','h','I','i','J','j','K','k','L','l','M','m',
	'N','n','O','o','P','p','Q','q','R','r','S','s','T',
	't','U','u','V','v','W','w','X','x','Y','y','Z','z',
	'0','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','!','-','.','~','@'
	]
	def convert(c):

	import time
	start = time.time()

	# call function

	elapsedTime = round( ( time.time() - start ), 3 )
	print(elapsedTime, "seconds")

	=begin
	(c) TIG 2011
	http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=33956
	Type exportvertices2csv in the Ruby Console.
	Exports all Vertices is a Selection to a X,Y,Z 'CSV' file.
	Edit sep="," if something other than a separating comma is desired e.g. ';'
	Make sep="\t" if a TSV file is desired and change ext="csv" to ext="tsv".
	It uses the current Model Units/accuracy with the approximate '~ ' and
	unit suffix [if any] removed; e.g. change Model Units to 'meters' 3dp to
	get exported csv in meters 1.234 - don't use 'fraction' 1' 2 1/2" formats,

	outputFile = ""

	byts = []

	with open( outputFile, 'wb' ) as file:

	file.write( bytes( byts ) )

	varying vec3 vVertexColor;

	void main ()
	{
	gl_FragColor = vec4( vVertexColor, 1.0 );
	}