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Whether you're trying to give back to the open source community or collaborating on your own projects, knowing how to properly fork and generate pull requests is essential. Unfortunately, it's quite easy to make mistakes or not know what you should do when you're initially learning the process. I know that I certainly had considerable initial trouble with it, and I found a lot of the information on GitHub and around the internet to be rather piecemeal and incomplete - part of the process described here, another there, common hangups in a different place, and so on.

In an attempt to coallate this information for myself and others, this short tutorial is what I've found to be fairly standard procedure for creating a fork, doing your work, issuing a pull request, and merging that pull request back into the original project.

Creating a Fork

Just head over to the GitHub page and click the "Fork" button. It's just that simple. Once you've done that, you can use your favorite git client to clone your repo or j

	package main

	import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"reflect"
	)

	type SearchResult struct {
	Date string `json:"date"`

	import (
	"bytes"
	"io"
	"os"
	)

	// not thread safe
	func captureStdout(f func()) string {
	old := os.Stdout
	r, w, _ := os.Pipe()

	package main
	import (
	"net/http"
	"log"
	)

	func redirect(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
	// remove/add not default ports from req.Host
	target := "https://" + req.Host + req.URL.Path
	if len(req.URL.RawQuery) > 0 {

	package main

	import (
	"crypto/tls"
	"net/http"
	"time"

	"log"
	)

	var (
	codes = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/~!@#$%^&*()_="
	codeLen = len(codes)
	)

	func RandNewStr(len int) string {
	data := make([]byte, len)
	rand.Seed(time.Now().UnixNano())

	for i := 0; i < len; i++ {

	#!/bin/bash
	#
	# Generates client and server certificates used to enable HTTPS
	# remote authentication to a Docker daemon.
	#
	# See http://docs.docker.com/articles/https/
	#
	# To start the Docker Daemon:
	#
	# sudo docker -d \

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	rt := reflect.TypeOf(v)

	if rt.Kind() == reflect.Ptr {
	rt = rt.Elem()
	return reflect.DeepEqual(v, reflect.New(rt).Interface())
	}

	return reflect.DeepEqual(v, reflect.Zero(rt).Interface())
	}