Re: permissions to add PR?

[Derek Davies]

Forgot to mention I'm using ssh key rather than "authentication token".
I had to use a GUI browser to complete the gh auth login stuff, which I
got through uncomfortably by mixing various tools, including yasr and
some other command line screen reader.  Everything is a compromise and
can easily be a dead end after hours of uncertain effort.  Really frustrating!!


Thanks!!
Derek

Derek Davies <ddavies@ddavies.net> writes:

> Thank You.
>
> I am really getting frustrated, so let me back up.
>
> Is there a way to participate without needing a GUI web browser?
>
> It's hard to know if it's not possible to do this w/o GUI tools or if
> it's just easier for most partially sighted to just struggle with the
> GUI or get help from someone sighted.
>
> If I must use a GUI web browser then it's pretty much Windows or MacOS
> b/c Orca and Linux just are even worse than the latter.  I can't afford
> Mac so that leaves windows.
>
> Since I'm using cygwin mintty on windows I'm running into winpty gitbash
> etc stuff.  So now I run gh repo fork in cmd.exe and can't get whatever
> outpout b/c the screen reader sucks fo rthat on cmd.exe.  Then I find I
> must install git fo rwindows.  Find, strange Unicode chars later and I
> realize I msut type winget install gitgit to have a git comamnd line
> program to clone the forked repo.
>
> But now my forked cloned repo is not under the current directory but,
> apparently und3er my windows home dir.  When I git status there I get
> all sorts of "modified" files.
>
> None of this give me confidence going forward.  I see gh create pr
> command and wonder how much more pain lies ahead.
>
> Is there a "Git hub for command line users? out there"  Any notes from
> anyone on low vision github hosted project participation?
>
> Sorry but I am so upset that hackers are apparently thinking it's okay
> to have workflow that relies on a non-automatable trap like a web browser.
>
> I am reay to just post the Makefile.am diff and cxxpiper.conf and
> cxxpiper.cpp source files and crawl back under a rock.
>
> So frustrated.
>
> Thanks,
> Derek
>
>
> Will Estes <westes575@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> gh repo fork
>>
>> is the subcommand you're looking for.
>>
>> On Thursday,  2 January 2025, 11:08 am -0500, Derek Davies 
>> <ddavies@ddavies.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Forgot the most important thing:
>>>
>>> Is it possible to fork a repo without depending on the web site/browser?
>>> Can it be done using githubcli/command line only?  If you know the
>>> commands that is /gold/ for me.  I've been trying to find a cli solution
>>> to this for a while, but it's been neither confirmed nor refuted for me 
>>> yet~!
>>>
>>> Thanks AgaiN!
>>> Derek
>>>
>>> Derek Davies <ddavies@ddavies.net> writes:
>>>
>>> > Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> writes:
>>> >> Of course you don't have commit access to the brailcom repository like
>>> >> almost everybody. The github way is for you to fork the project into
>>> >> your own repository, push your branch there, and create a PR from there.
>>> >
>>> > Thank You!!  I am back on it, now ala "the github way.  I was following
>>> > some instructions likely meant for a didfferent situation.
>>> >
>>> > Derek
>>>
>>>