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Fork the repository to your own GitHub account.
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Clone the repository to your local machine
$ git clone "https://www.github.com/{Username}/CPP-Programming.git"
where username is your GitHub account username.
- Create a branch where you can do your local work. Never work on master/main branch as we do not allow master commits except by admins.
$ git branch {branchname}
$ git checkout branchname
- Do your work and stage your changes.
$ git add <filename>
- Commit you changes with a commit message containing your name, file(s) worked upon, changes added.
$ git commit -m "Name| files| Changes"
- Push changes to your forked repository
$ git push -u origin branchname
- Create a pull request to the upstream repository.
- Create upstream as our repository
$ git remote add upstream "https://www.github.com/siddharth25pandey/CPP-Programming"
- Fetch upstream changes in local machine
$ git fetch upstream
- Switch to master branch
$ git checkout master
- Merge changes in local machine
$ git merge upstream/master
- Push changes to your forked GitHub repository
$ git push -f origin master