RFR: Section on cloning [v3]

[Jesper Wilhelmsson]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 23:35:50 GMT, Kevin Rushforth <kcr at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> How do we motivate recommending https for upstream? I mean it's not as if people can push regardless. Is there a git convention to use https for read only repos?
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> GitHub defaults to https when you click on the green "Code" button to get the URL of a repo to clone. The Skara tooling also uses https URLs for openjdk/jdk in its examples (e.g., the example of fetching a pull request locally for testing). It seems better to suggest anonymous https for remotes that you don't need to push to (such as the upstream openjdk/jdk).
> 
> For the user's personal fork it really doesn't matter, so maybe it's better to drop that part of my suggestion (it's simpler too). So perhaps this?
> 
> 
> $ git clone git at github.com:JesperIRL/jdk.git
> $ cd jdk
> $ git remote add upstream https://github.com/openjdk/jdk.git

Ok. Changed.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/guide/pull/59