The following are the few steps i follow when making pull requests;-
Fork a repository from GitHub that you would like to contribute to.
Clone the repository using
git clone [https address].change directory into the cloned repo on your local machine i.e
cd [name of repo].create a new branch (if it is a small project) using
git checkout -b [new branch name].
(optional), if it is quite a large project with many branches you can use an existing branch using git checkout [branch name].
Make changes to the code and commit your changes, execute
git statusto see the changes made then git add . to add those changes to the branch.You can now commit your changes using
git commit -m “descriptive message”. Identify the remote’s name using git remote and then push the changes to GitHub usinggit push origin [branch name].
- A note to remember, you need a personal access token from github in order to push to github.
- There After go to your forked project repo on the github website and create a new pull request.