So occasionally I like to fork a project on
GitHub well the proper way to do it is to use GitHub's fork button which then clone's the repo into your account. this is great! I can than clone that locally develop it an push to it. Usually I do this push with
git push origin. I can then ask the owner of the original repo that I forked from to 'pull' my changes in. Wait did I just say original? why am I calling my repo on github origin? it's probably not the origin repo... it's not the primary project repo... so I decided I needed a new convention. I now do
git remote add my uri://... for my repo's on github and
git remote add origin uri:// for the projects authoritative repo. This also helps when I need to update my repo from the origin and then push them to my public forks.
