Git work flow with an inexperienced member

Question

What would you suggest as a work flow when there is a inexperienced developer joins the team. I have been using git for my projects and now a new developer will join but he has not used any version control before. Project resides in Github and I have no way of pulling directly with him. We are both behind firewalls.

Should I create a branch for him on github and merge it to master my self or do I ask him for patches at the end of the day.

Answer 1

I haven't worked much with github (I do use it, but only the very basic stuff), but I've seen a "fork this project" feature, and a "request pull".

I suppose he can fork the project and request you to pull from his fork (instead of from his machine).

This is assuming that the fork will create a project for him, where he can push his changes to github, then you can pull from his github project, then push it to the main one, where he pulls from.