Re: RFC: How to I set up a branch of main that I can "publish"?

On Sat, Jul 4, 2026 at 2:19 PM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Jul 4, 2026 at 3:16 PM Rick Macklem <rick.macklem@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I now have a rather large # of commits authored by Vinicius Ferrao
>> for NFS-over-RDMA. They are currently in his fork of freebsd-src
>> on github.com.
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>> I do have a simpleton mechanism to get them into a local branch
>> of main, but I do not want to push them to main yet.
>> (Actually, I'd be happy to push them into main, but I have as yet,
>> no way of testing them.)
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>> Is there somewhere I can push this stuff so others can clone it?
>> (I can push it to a fork I have of freebsd-src on github.com, but
>> I don't know how to push that to "main"?)
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>> I'm git clueless, so any suggestions would be appreciated, rick
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> So usually what people do is to create some named branch (nfs-over-rdma).
> They then push that to a fork of FreeBSD they've setup on their github.
> They then point people at that branch for testing and collaboration. We don't
> currently allow WIP branches to be pushed either to our source of truth repo
> or our github mirror.
Ok, I know how to do the above. What I don't know how to do is get that into
main? (When you say "named branch" is that a branch of a github fork
of freebsd-src
or a named branch of my local clone of main? If it is the latter, I
can see how I can
push it when the time comes, but can I push that to my fork on github?)

Thanks for any help, rick

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> Warner