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Creating a Pull Request
Tim Fischbach edited this page Jan 8, 2015
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All your contributions should happen on feature branches. Your
master
branch should only ever change by pulling commits from
upstream
as described above.
# ensure you are on branch master
$ git checkout master
# create a feature branch
$ git checkout -b my-feature
# make changes and commit
$ git commit
# push the feature branch to your fork
$ git push origin
Now you can visit the GitHub repository page and create a pull request from your feature branch. Be sure to provide a thorough explanation of the changes you propose. Note that you can push further commits to your branch to update the pull request.
Once the pull request is merged update your fork.
master
will now include your changes.
There are some more guidelines to follow, depending on what kind of pull requests you make: