🐙 GitHub -
Creating Pull Requests

Updated at 2015-03-06 17:49

This is a checklist how to create a pull request in GitHub.

Fork the repository using GitHub's web interface
```
GitHub -> Repository -> Fork
```

Download the new fork to local environment.

git clone [email protected]:username/repositoryname.git
cd repositoryname

Create a development branch.
```
git checkout -b my-feature
```
Start development and split your changes into small commits.
```
git add file.md
git commit -m "What you did"
```
After you are done with your changes, update your local master.
```
git checkout master
git pull upstream
```
Move your commits after the possible master changes with rebase.
```
git checkout my-feature
git rebase master
```
Push your branch to the forked repository in GitHub.
```
git push origin my-feature
```

Create a pull request using GitHub's web interface.

GitHub -> New pull request -> Compare across forks -> Select your fork and branch