- Fork the project (done via website)
- Clone your fork (to your system)
- Run
git status - Create a branch to work from
git checkout -b <branch-name> - Check status
git status - Make your code/changes/etc.
- Run
git add <file-name> <file-name> - Commit your changes
git commit -m "appropriate note" - Push your changes
git push - Configure a remote for the fork
git remote add upstream https://github.com/original-owner-username/original-repository.git - Update the latest version of the upstream to avoid conflicts
git fetch upstream - Switch to main branch in your local fork
git checkout main - Merge the upstream changes to your local main branch thus avoiding PR conflicts
git merge upstream/main - Request a PR on GitHub (website) after you have done your changes.
- Use GitHub's learning tool https://lab.github.com
- Short helpful reads https://guides.github.com
- Digital Ocean Tutorial Series for Open Source https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorial_series/an-introduction-to-open-source
- Thanks to the opensourceTips page, we discovered this https://learngitbranching.js.org
- Use SSH where possible