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Collaborating on open-source projects

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Collaborating on open-source projects

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we will look at how to collaborate on open-source projects. We've been discussing collaboration on private projects where developers have both read and write access to the repository. They can push commits directly to a remote branch. This approach is common inside companies and other small teams. These are usually private repositories, and the administrators control which developers are granted access to the code. There are also many open-source project repositories, and they work a little differently. The whole world can view the repository. That's what open-source means, but it would be chaos if just anyone could make edits to the project. Typically, only a small number of designated project leaders are given write access. If you aren't able to push commits to the project directory, then you may be wondering, how can you collaborate on one of these open-source projects? The specifics are different for every project, but there are common strategies. You…

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