Why are you fixating on this notion of cleanup? There's no need to "clean up" your public repos. Even if you're making complex changes, I think GitHub is much

Why are you fixating on this notion of cleanup? There's no need to "clean up" your public repos. Even if you're making complex changes, I think GitHub is much easier to work with than the classic "patch" emails. I frequently will randomly fork a project that I'm using and submit a minor pull request when I wouldn't hunt down their source control system, clone it locally, make changes, find their preferred email/patch system, look up the commands to create a patch file, and email the patch. GitHub is drop dead simple: 1. Click fork. 2. Edit your fork online or clone locally, committing changes. 3. Click the "pull request" button. Just because a model is new doesn't mean it's worse.