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Public git repositories
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-Another way to submit changes to a project is to tell the maintainer of
-that project to pull the changes from your repository using git-pull[1].
-In the section "<<getting-updates-with-git-pull, Getting updates with
-git pull>>" we described this as a way to get updates from the "main"
-repository, but it works just as well in the other direction.
+Another way to submit changes to a project is to tell the maintainer
+of that project to pull the changes from your repository using
+gitlink:git-pull[1]. In the section "<<getting-updates-with-git-pull,
+Getting updates with git pull>>" we described this as a way to get
+updates from the "main" repository, but it works just as well in the
+other direction.
If you and the maintainer both have accounts on the same machine, then
you can just pull changes from each other's repositories directly;
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Linus's tree will be stored in the remote branch named origin/master,
and can be updated using gitlink:git-fetch[1]; you can track other
public trees using gitlink:git-remote[1] to set up a "remote" and
-git-fetch[1] to keep them up-to-date; see <<repositories-and-branches>>.
+gitlink:git-fetch[1] to keep them up-to-date; see
+<<repositories-and-branches>>.
Now create the branches in which you are going to work; these start out
at the current tip of origin/master branch, and should be set up (using