[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Experiment: enable github pull requests

[Gyan Doshi]

On 2025-02-13 02:19 pm, Leo Izen wrote:
> On 2/12/25 5:05 PM, Timo Rothenpieler wrote:
>>>
>> I'm really not sure what you're asking.
>> PRs are not restricted. Creating repos is.
>> And there is no way to NOT restrict it, unless you want to pay 
>> several hundred Euros a month in hosting fees extra, and constantly 
>> be on the lookout for hosting illegal/harmful things.
>
> My understanding as a Github and Gitlab user is the usual way to make 
> a PR is to first fork the repository, then commit changes to a branch 
> on your fork, and then send a PR which compares the fork to the master 
> branch of upstream.

For some time, Github has allowed in-place editing. What that means is 
once you finished editing the file in the upstream repo, GH will fork 
the repo for you, or if already forked, create a new branch, with your 
changes incorporated, and give you an option to send a PR.

Regards,
Gyan