NB: This also works for the case where you'd like to contribute to the original repo, but you've already forked a fork of the original repo.
Let johndoe/coolrepo
be the name of the fork that you'd like to contribute to.
Let master
be the branch of johndoe/coolrepo
that you'd like to start working from.
- Choose a name for a new remote that you'll use in subsequent steps. Let's use
yupstream
. git remote add yupstream [email protected]:johndoe/coolrepo.git
git fetch yupstream master
- Choose a name for a new branch that will contain the fork that you'd like to contribute to. Let's use
feature/add-to-coolrepo
.