What is the procedure to contribute a new example?

[Danial.Khazaeipoul]

Dear OpenLB developers and maintainers,

Would you please explain the procedure to contribute a new example?

Regards,
Danial

[Adrian]

You can create a merge request to our public Git repository.

Looking forward to your contribution!

[Danial.Khazaeipoul]

Dear Adrian,

I just tried to follow the standard procedure. Here is the steps I taken before pushing the new branch to your public repository:

1. Cloned OpenLB’s public repository
2. Created a new branch off the “master” branch
3. Added and committed the changes (only a new example is added)
4. Pushed the new branch to remote

However, I got the following error at step 4:

remote: You are not allowed to push code to this project

Regards,
Danial

[Adrian]

Can you confirm that the remote of your local repository is actually pointing to your clone and not the release repository? This is the likely reason for this error.

[Danial.Khazaeipoul]

Here is the output of “git remote -v” on my local repository:

origin https://gitlab.com/openlb/release.git (fetch)
origin https://gitlab.com/openlb/release.git (push)

If I am not supposed to push my new branch to the release repository, then how can I later submit a merge request to the master branch on your public repository? Would you please further elaborate?

[Danial.Khazaeipoul]

I am asking because usually only the master or main branch is write-protected, which means users other than admins are not permitted to make unauthorized changes. In this case, any change must go through a merge request to be added to the main branch. However, users are able to create a new branch and push it to the remote repository which later can be merge into the main branch upon approval. Can you explain how OpenLB’s repository works?

• This reply was modified 2 months, 2 weeks ago by Danial.Khazaeipoul.

[Adrian]

You can see documentation on this process by Gitlab.

You can create a merge request from your fork of the repository. This is the common way of handling things in projects hosted on Git(lab,hub) in my experience – of course recurring contributors usually will at some point get direct access to the upstream repository but most changes are handled via forks and merge requests.

[Danial.Khazaeipoul]

Thank you for the explanation.

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