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That's because in the instructions above I leave how you administer your repo and how you want to handle doing your changes to yourself. The best practice for using git is that any changes you make to your repo are done on a branch and when finalized merged back into HEAD. The instructions are for setting up a simple method of applying vbulletin changes to a location where you have your own customized changes to vbulletin. How you track your customization to the vbulletin code base is up to you, as is any additional infrastructure you want to add around the above process.