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Chaser324 / GitHub-Forking.md
Last active May 2, 2024 05:49
GitHub Standard Fork & Pull Request Workflow

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

@iboard
iboard / install_ruby2_with_rvm.sh
Last active January 20, 2019 08:04
obsolete - install ruby2
# How I managed to install #ruby-2.0 with #rvm on #MacOS 10.8
export CC=/usr/bin/gcc
rvm pkg install openssl
rvm install ruby-head --with-gcc=clang --verify-downloads 1 # see *
rvm use ruby-head
ruby -v
ruby 2.0.0dev (2013-02-24) [x86_64-darwin12.2.0]
@bdunagan
bdunagan / s3-delete-bucket.rb
Created November 21, 2011 17:23
s3-delete-bucket.rb: quickly delete large AWS S3 buckets using fog
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# s3-delete-bucket.rb
# Fog-based script for deleting large Amazon AWS S3 buckets (~100 files/second)
# Forked from this excellent script: https://github.com/SFEley/s3nuke
require 'rubygems'
require 'thread'
require 'fog'
@lucasfais
lucasfais / gist:1207002
Created September 9, 2011 18:46
Sublime Text 2 - Useful Shortcuts

Sublime Text 2 – Useful Shortcuts (Mac OS X)

General

⌘T go to file
⌘⌃P go to project
⌘R go to methods
⌃G go to line
⌘KB toggle side bar
⌘⇧P command prompt
# Use Chef resources in an application via solo mode.
# Could also be configured in client mode, and then use a server.
require 'rubygems'
require 'chef'
require 'chef/client'
require 'chef/run_context'
Chef::Config[:solo] = true
Chef::Config[:log_level] = :info
require 'chef'
require 'chef/node'
class Opscode
class Backup
attr_accessor :backup_dir
def initialize(backup_dir, config_file)
@backup_dir = backup_dir
Chef::Config.from_file(config_file)