Best practice for port contributors in github world

[Luc Bourhis]

>> Thanks. Do I need to run `portindex` in that directory //path/to/my/clone/of/macports-ports ?
> 
> Yes, although that will be done for you as part of 'port sync' (which is part of selfupdate).
> 
>>> Another option is to have a repo with just the ports you're working on and set it up as per <https://guide.macports.org/chunked/development.local-repositories.html <https://guide.macports.org/chunked/development.local-repositories.html>>.
>> 
>> This is my current setup actually. Which bring the next question: is it enough to just do `port selfupdate` after making the change above in sources.conf?
> 
> Depends on how you have your remotes set up I guess. The command run by sync is 'git pull --rebase', so set it up so that will pull the changes you want.

Great! You are saving me a lot of time!

Thanks a bunch, Joshua,

Luc

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