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Forking and making changes to a private repo

  1. Fork the repo in Github to your account (exampleorg/examplerepo -> personal/examplerepo)
  2. Clone your fork of the repo
git clone git@github.com:personal/examplerepo.git
  1. Add the remote of the original repo as the upstream
git remote add upstream git@github.com:exampleorg/examplerepo.git
  1. Fetch the branches from upstream
git fetch upstream
  1. Checkout a local branch based on the upstream's branch
git checkout -b my-branch upstream/target-branch
  1. Make your changes to the branch, add the changes, and commit
git add .
git commit -m "My commit"
  1. Push your changes to your fork
git push origin my-branch
  1. Go to Github and open a pull request
  2. Change the base branch to the target-branch of the base repository

Future changes can be completed by repeating from step 4.

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