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How does anyone can contribute to a GitHub open software repository?

  • 27-03-2021 07:43AM
    #1
    shamijohn123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 ✭


    I've been reading many Github training resources, trying to figure out easy steps to the workflow for contributing to a GitHub repository using GitHub itself (I'm a Windows programmer, so I find the local git CLI extremely awkward, as well as much more complicated than working entirely remotely in GitHub).

    I will post the steps as I discover and develop them in the answer below.

    Please, I cannot do this on my own, as I barely know what I'm doing. Suggest edits to my answer, or post comments and I will edit.
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  • #2
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,864 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    I'm not an expert, but in my experience the cycle is: fork the repo on github, make a local copy on your own machine, create a branch with your changes, commit and push those changes, then create a pull request for the maintainer of the original repo to review.

    I run Linux on my desktop so I use the git CLI all the time - can't help you with a Windows local workflow.


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