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#How to work on your own fork

Let's assume you belong to an organization called justiceleague and that you're supposed to submit code to the earth repository. Since I am batman, I do it like this:

  • Go to https://github.com/justiceleague/earth and click on the fork button on the top right corner. Wait until github completes the copy.
  • Now, it's time to clone the repository and to add both remotes.
git clone [email protected]:justiceleague/earth.git -o upstream
cd earth
git remote add origin [email protected]:batman/earth.git
  • This way, you can upload your progress to your own fork as a branch (without polluting the organization's repository).
git checkout -b mybranch upstream/master
# get work done
git add -A
git commit -m "My awesome changes"
git push origin mybranch
# ready to create PR!
  • Finally, you can go to https://github.com/justiceleague/earth to create your PR!
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