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Buddy, the entire premise here is user "Monotonic" telling me that configuring remotes is unnecessary and that that in fact he or she just pushes to origin.

Don't jump in to the middle of the conversation here and then tell me that I'm not following along after saying to me that, in fact, you configure your remotes to be able to push to them. I know that! That you have to configure your remotes and that you can't just ignore it is _my_ position!

The intense cognitive dissonance that comes out when GitHub is criticized on this site is friggin' _nuts_.

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Buddy, the entire premise here is user "Monotonic" telling me that configuring remotes is unnecessary and that that in fact he or she just pushes to origin.

They are referring to origin as the forked repository. E.g. if I contribute to nixpkgs (the NixOS package repository), I only have to fork it once, use that as my origin, and can create branches and submit PRs.

So, you are both right. If you contribute many times to the same repo, you only have to fork once. If you do a lot of drive-by contributions, you'll end up forking a lot of repositories.

(I fully agree that GitHub has a lot of overhead compared to git format-patch/diff. GitHub et al. also have some benefits in terms of communication. At any rate, diff/format-patch are not that hard, so I think any git user should learn it.)

On the drive-bys... create a YOURNAME-contrib organization, that you can fork to. I've started down this path which will help more as I get used to it.

> If you contribute many times to the same repo, you only have to fork once. If you do a lot of drive-by contributions, you'll end up forking a lot of repositories.

That doesn't contradict anything I've written here, or anything I've written in years past on exactly this topic. But this _entire_ branch of conversation started with someone quibbling that I didn't rank configuration of remotes as a zero-cost operation. So, no, we're not both right.

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