Contributing to a GitHub project

This tutorial will help with the following situation: when you are proposing changes to someone else's repo for which you do not have write permissions.

TL;DR: how to pull request or fix bugs in someone else's project.

Tasks

1. fork this repo

i.e. create your own copy of this.

2. clone locally your fork

3. Configure your fork to point to the original repo

4. create a branch for your edits

git checkout -b newbranch

5. open source.tex and each person fixes a specific "error" in the "source code"

But wait for me, I will tell you what an "error" means in this context.

6. Commit and push the new branch

git commit -am "descreva o que mudou"
git push -u origin newbranch

7. Create the pull request: contribute your bug fix to the code

8. Now I will review your pull requests

9. sync your fork with the original repo

In order to check out how the original project is evolving (or not) with the input of the group.

Links

Contributing to open source on github