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C:\Users\gbailey\a9>vagrant init gbailey/amzn2
A `Vagrantfile` has been placed in this directory. You are now
ready to `vagrant up` your first virtual environment! Please read
the comments in the Vagrantfile as well as documentation on
`vagrantup.com` for more information on using Vagrant.

C:\Users\gbailey\a9>vagrant up
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> default: Box 'gbailey/amzn2' could not be found. Attempting to find and install...
    default: Box Provider: virtualbox

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Get the snapshot ID for a given AMI

$ aws ec2 describe-images --image-ids ami-035be7bafff33b6b6 --query 'Images[].BlockDeviceMappings[].Ebs.SnapshotId' --output text
snap-0ee5fbcb154b23d7e

Create a volume using the snapshot ID

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Whether you're trying to give back to the open source community or collaborating on your own projects, knowing how to properly fork and generate pull requests is essential. Unfortunately, it's quite easy to make mistakes or not know what you should do when you're initially learning the process. I know that I certainly had considerable initial trouble with it, and I found a lot of the information on GitHub and around the internet to be rather piecemeal and incomplete - part of the process described here, another there, common hangups in a different place, and so on.

In an attempt to coallate this information for myself and others, this short tutorial is what I've found to be fairly standard procedure for creating a fork, doing your work, issuing a pull request, and merging that pull request back into the original project.

Creating a Fork

Just head over to the GitHub page and click the "Fork" button. It's just that simple. Once you've done that, you can use your favorite git client to clone your repo or j

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#!/usr/bin/bash

set -e

# set up nux-dextop repo to install font packages. skip if this repo had already set up.
# can be done by either rpm or yum app.
# /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/rpm -Uvh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-5.el7.nux.noarch.rpm
/usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/yum localinstall http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-5.el7.nux.noarch.rpm

# disable nux-dextop by default and only enable it as needed as part of running yum.