- Enable SSH keypair authentication. It is strongly recommended when cloning and working with git repositories hosted on GitHub.
- Set up your GitHub profile, including name, avatar and email addresses.
- If you are a member of the ManageIQ organization, you may opt to publicize your membership.
Set global user, push and pull options. If you want to set options on a per-repository basis, omit --global.
git config --global user.name "Joe Smith"
git config --global user.email [email protected]
git config --global --bool pull.rebase true
git config --global push.default simpleFork ManageIQ/manageiq by clicking on the Fork button.
Once your fork has been created, clone it and create an upstream remote.
git clone [email protected]:<username>/manageiq.git
cd manageiq
git remote add upstream [email protected]:ManageIQ/manageiq.git
git fetch upstreamYou can pull upstream changes into your local repository using pull.
git pull upstream master --ffOnce your changes are ready, open a Pull Request against the upstream project.