jagregory

So you've cloned somebody's repo from github, but now you want to fork it and contribute back. Never fear!

Technically, when you fork "origin" should be your fork and "upstream" should be the project you forked; however, if you're willing to break this convention then it's easy.

* Off the top of my head *

1. Fork their repo on Github
2. In your local, add a new remote to your fork; then fetch it, and push your changes up to it

    git remote add my-fork [email protected]

gabrielemariotti

android {

    signingConfigs {
        release
    }

    buildTypes {
            release {
                signingConfig signingConfigs.release
            }

chrisbanes

/*
 * Copyright (C) 2006 The Android Open Source Project
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

chrisbanes

/*
 * Copyright 2014 Chris Banes
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

Chaser324

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

rharter

package com.ryanharter.android.util;

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.SharedPreferences;

/**
 * Keeps track of the number of app launches, and days since first launch, and
 * provides an easy way to determine whether you should show a rating prompt
 * or not.
 */

onyxmueller

import groovy.transform.Field

// This is a drop-in Gradle script that allows you to easily strip out the packages you don't need
// from the Google Play Services library. The script will keep track of previous runs to prevent
// restripping each time you build.

// HOW TO USE THIS
//
// 1) Download/copy this strip_google_play_services.gradle file into the same location of your app's
//    build.gradle file.

nickbutcher

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!--
  Copyright (C) 2015 The Android Open Source Project

  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
  You may obtain a copy of the License at

      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

pyricau

import android.util.Log;
import com.squareup.leakcanary.AnalysisResult;
import com.squareup.leakcanary.DisplayLeakService;
import com.squareup.leakcanary.HeapDump;
import retrofit.RestAdapter;
import retrofit.RetrofitError;
import retrofit.http.Multipart;
import retrofit.http.POST;
import retrofit.http.Part;
import retrofit.mime.TypedFile;

lisawray

package com.example.columnspacing

import android.graphics.Paint;
import android.graphics.Rect;
import android.support.v4.content.ContextCompat;
import android.support.v7.widget.GridLayoutManager;
import android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;