This is how you can make a "pull request", to suggest your modifications to be accepted to the code base.
(Or take git pull
if you already have the repository.)
You need to get the .git folder inside the repository. If the download doesn't work you can use clone, which creates a separate folder and downloads the repository:
git clone https://github.com/fsprojects/SQLProvider.git
Here are some tech details.
Do the modifications, check the build and tests are working. Commit the modifications to your local repository.
This will "copy" the repository for your account.
In GitHub, go to your copy of the repository (under your profile, Repositories-tab) and under Download, get the repository url, e.g. https://github.com/myname/SqlProvider.git
With command line, add a remote to your repository url:
git remote add myrepo https://github.com/myname/SqlProvider.git
Use the name you want for repository and note your GitHub account in the url. You can check the remotes with git remote -v
.
Push the latest version to your repository with
git push myrepo
. You should see the modifications in GitHub under your repository.
In GitHub under your repository press the Create pull request -button. By default, everything should be correct: Base-fork is the one where you want to send the modifications and head fork is your fork, so follow the wizard.
Your pull request should be visible under "Pull requests" -tab in original repository. When you do more commits, you can ignore parts 3, 4 and 5, they has to be done just once.