How to work on someone else's branch

collaborate_on_branches.md

#How to work on someone else's branch

Let's assume you need to collaborate with Batman on his forked repository.

• First, you need to add his fork as a remote.

git remote add batman git@github.com:batman/iambatman.git

• Now, you can fetch, pull and push to his fork (if you have permissions to do so).

git fetch batman

• So, to add changes to the savegotham branch, you must:

# batman is the name of the remote
git checkout -b local-branch-name batman/savegotham
# ...Make changes to local files...
git add -A
git commit -m "The joker is dead"
# batman -> name of remote, savegotham -> name of branch
git push batman savegotham

####Notes:

• See your remotes with git remote -v

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Once you've pushed your changes, and you don't want to have the remote in your list of remotes anymore, you can remove it:

git remote remove batman

To list your current remotes and verify that the remote you removed is gone, use:

git remote -v

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