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The mpi-forum/mpi-standard repo on GitHub is only available to members of the GitHub mpi-forum organization.

Members can create a GitHub fork of the mpi-forum/mpi-standard repo.

  • A GitHub fork is essentially a clone of the mpi-standard repo hosted at github.com in a GitHub user's personal account. For example, if user wesbland forks the mpi-forum/mpi-standard repo, he will end up with a wesbland/mpi-standard repo.
  • Just like the main mpi-forum/mpi-standard repo, the wesbland/mpi-standard repo will be private and not viewable by those who are not members of the mpi-forum GitHub organization.
  • The reason individual MPI Forum members make their own forks is because the MPI Forum repository is only writable by the Editor of the MPI Forum. As such, MPI Forum members propose new text for the document by pushing git commits containing their proposed changes to their own fork, and then creating a GitHub pull request back to the main mpi-forum/mpi-standard repository (we'll get to the details of how to create a pull request a little later).

Create a fork of mpi-forum/mpi-standard via the GitHub web interface by visiting https://github.com/mpi-forum/mpi-standard/fork.

Once the fork is created, you can add that remote in the same way you added the working group remote:

# Add a remote for the user "wesbland" and call the remote "myfork".
# You should substitute in your own username (and possibly a different
# remote name to your liking).
$ git remote add myfork [email protected]:wesbland/mpi-standard.git

# You can see the new "myfork" remote:
$ git remote -v
ftwg	[email protected]:mpiwg-ft/mpi-standard.git (fetch)
ftwg	[email protected]:mpiwg-ft/mpi-standard.git (push)
mpi-standard	[email protected]:mpi-forum/mpi-standard.git (fetch)
mpi-standard	[email protected]:mpi-forum/mpi-standard.git (push)
myfork	[email protected]:wesbland/mpi-standard.git (fetch)
myfork	[email protected]:wesbland/mpi-standard.git (push)

Just like above, let's now download all the data from the new remote we just added:

# Download data from all the remotes that we have defined.
# Note that there is nothing new to download from "ftwg" and "main"
# in this case.
$ git fetch --all
Fetching ftwg
Fetching main
Fetching myfork
remote: Counting objects: 1615, done.
remote: Total 1615 (delta 169), reused 169 (delta 169), pack-reused 1446
Receiving objects: 100% (1615/1615), 3.35 MiB | 2.88 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (982/982), completed with 46 local objects.
From github.com:mpiwg-ft/mpi-standard
 * [new branch]        mpi-1.x    -> myfork/mpi-1.x
 * [new branch]        mpi-2.x    -> myfork/mpi-2.x
 * [new branch]        mpi-3.x    -> myfork/mpi-3.x

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