This document describes how developers may contribute pull requests to an upstream repository and how upstream owners may merge pull requests from contributors according to the very popular fork and pull request workflow followed in many projects on GitHub. The download buttons above download version 0.6.0 (the latest stable release) of this document. Every project has a main development branch where the developers push commits on a day-to-day basis. Usually, the main development branch is master but some projects choose to have develop or trunk or another branch for day-to-day development activities. We refer to this main development branch as the main development branch throughout this document to keep the text general. However in the command examples and ASCII-diagrams, we use master as an example of the main development branch.

Features

  • A branch is merely a pointer to the tip of a series of commits
  • Create Pull Request
  • Keep Your Fork Updated
  • Work on Pull Request
  • Amend Last Commit
  • Rebase Commits

Project Samples

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License

MIT License

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