Howto fork a repo on github and submit patches to the author

Posted by Edmund Haselwanter on Tuesday, October 07, 2008

It’s really easy. Some Documentation can be found at

http://github.com/guides/fork-a-project-and-submit-your-modifications
http://github.com/guides/changing-your-origin
http://railsontherun.com/2008/3/3/how-to-use-github-and-submit-a-patch

  1. click on the fork button on github
  2. clone it from there
  3. add the old origin as e.g. upstream
  4. make the changes
  5. push to own repo
  6. klick on the pull request button.

now that is community developing. great stuff