Contribution guide to open source project

GitHub Fork & Pull Request

Fork the project you want to contribute

Clone your fork to your local machine

git clone git@github.com:USERNAME/FORKED-PROJECT.git

Add ‘upstream’ repo to list of remotes

git remote add upstream https://github.com/UPSTREAM-USER/ORIGINAL-PROJECT.git

Verify the new remote named ‘upstream’

git remote -v

Fetch from upstream remote

git fetch upstream

View all branches, including those from upstream

git branch -va

Checkout your master branch and merge upstream

git checkout master
git merge upstream/master

Create a new branch named newfeature (give your branch its own simple informative name)

git branch newfeature

Switch to your new branch

git checkout newfeature

Finally make changes in the code