![]() To bring your copy in sync, this is the process that I do. So, it’s maybe been a few days or weeks, since you made your initial fork/clone and you want to make another contribution, but there have been changes to that repo since and your copy is out of date. Now that you have the repo on your local machine you can make the changes that you want to make, commit them to your repo and then issue a pull request to the original source. You can now push and pull from your copy of the repo and also pull (and push if you have contributor rights) to the original repo, which will help later on. Git remote add upstream **INSERT the original repo clone URL** Within your terminal console, you need to change into the directory of your clone repo, in my case the directory is called Test so within my Terminal I type Now go back to the original repo and copy the clone URL from there. Git clone **INSERT THE URL YOU COPIED EARLIER** I usually use the Documents folder on my computer for GitHub files, so I type: You’ll see a console open at the bottom of your screen, in here we want to change to the directory you want to copy the documentation into. ![]() Now open Visual Studio Code and click on Terminal > New Terminal. If you click on that button a URL will display, copy that. The next step is to take a copy of that repo onto your computer for editing, to do that we carry out an operation called Clone.įind the green button that says Clone or Download on your screen. Once the fork has completed GitHub will load your copy of the repository. Then click on the Fork button Github Repository The first step is to find a repository (repo) that I want to work on within GitHub. This article assumes that you have Visual Studio Code and Git installed on your local computer. I want to share how I do it with you all, now there maybe other ways of doing this and I’d love to hear them but this is the way I do it at the moment. ![]() I’ve tried all sorts of techniques and methods however, I’ve found a workflow that works for me. ![]() Then a couple of weeks later you thought of something else you wanted to contribute but your copy of the repo was out of date and you had to spend time getting it back in line with the original? How many times have you forked a GitHub repository(repo) and worked on your copy of it, made changes, pushed them back to the original and went off to do something else. ![]()
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