It will look like this: $ git remote add upstream Type git remote add upstream, and then paste the URL you copied in Step 2 and press Enter. > origin YOUR_USERNAME/ YOUR_FORK.git (push) > origin YOUR_USERNAME/ YOUR_FORK.git (fetch) You'll see the current configured remote repository for your fork.
If you haven't yet, you should first set up Git. You can also take a free GitHub Learning Lab course on maintaining open source communities.
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For more information, see " Choose an open source license" at .įor more information on open source, specifically how to create and grow an open source project, we've created Open Source Guides that will help you foster a healthy open source community by recommending best practices for creating and maintaining repositories for your open source project.
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When creating your public repository from a fork of someone's project, make sure to include a license file that determines how you want your project to be shared with others. For more information, see the " About the Open Source Initiative" on the Open Source Initiative.įor more information about applying open source principles to your organization's development work on, see GitHub's white paper " An introduction to innersource."
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Open source software is based on the idea that by sharing code, we can make better, more reliable software. Use someone else's project as a starting point for your own idea. Submit a pull request to the project owner.Rather than logging an issue for a bug you've found, you can: For more information, see " Working with forks." Propose changes to someone else's projectįor example, you can use forks to propose changes related to fixing a bug. You can fork a repository to create a copy of the repository and make changes without affecting the upstream repository. Most commonly, forks are used to either propose changes to someone else's project to which you don't have write access, or to use someone else's project as a starting point for your own idea.