How To: Fork a GitHub Repository & Submit a Pull Request

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How To: Fork a GitHub Repository & Submit a Pull Request

Walkthrough of forking a GitHub repository, cloning it, committing your changes to a new branch, and pushing it back upstream.

https://jarv.is/notes/how-to-pull-request-fork-github/

[blentz100]

Jake - this is the best workflow for PRs I've seen. It's a great balance between explaining things and being concise enough to serve as a reference document. This will be my goto reference document for PRs now.

[shaunhurley]

Agree with @blentz100 :) My only note suggestion would be to add a step 8. Synchronize with the original repository after your PR has been accepted (git pull upstream master) :)

[noob339]

Thank you! Easy to follow, beginner friendly, concise and thorough.

[KevWal]

Hi

master is sometimes called main, if you get an error "fatal: couldn't find remote ref refs/heads/master" then try using the name main instead of master.