git clone git@github.com:YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-FORKED-REPO.git
cd into/cloned/fork-repo
git remote add upstream git://github.com/ORIGINAL-DEV-USERNAME/REPO-YOU-FORKED-FROM.git
git fetch upstream
[user] | |
name = Pavan Kumar Sunkara | |
email = pavan.sss1991@gmail.com | |
username = pksunkara | |
[init] | |
defaultBranch = master | |
[core] | |
editor = nvim | |
whitespace = fix,-indent-with-non-tab,trailing-space,cr-at-eol | |
pager = delta |
Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config
file. It looks like this:
[remote "origin"]
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
url = git@github.com:joyent/node.git
Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/*
to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:
Press minus + shift + s
and return
to chop/fold long lines!
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.
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
# vim style tmux config | |
# use C-a, since it's on the home row and easier to hit than C-b | |
set-option -g prefix C-a | |
unbind-key C-a | |
bind-key C-a send-prefix | |
set -g base-index 1 | |
# Easy config reload | |
bind-key R source-file ~/.tmux.conf \; display-message "tmux.conf reloaded." |
# Ask for the user password | |
# Script only works if sudo caches the password for a few minutes | |
sudo true | |
# Install kernel extra's to enable docker aufs support | |
# sudo apt-get -y install linux-image-extra-$(uname -r) | |
# Add Docker PPA and install latest version | |
# sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 36A1D7869245C8950F966E92D8576A8BA88D21E9 | |
# sudo sh -c "echo deb https://get.docker.io/ubuntu docker main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list" |