about.md

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This is intended to be a play ground.

If you want to see your edits in the proper way, you must install and use jekyll.

Installing git:

• On windows: git for windows
• On linux apt-get install git git-gui or something similar on redhat, centos and such

Part I: How to contribute to this/any github project

1. Go to the project

2. click fork project

3. git clone [email protected]:<your user>/git-demo

4. edit project (e.g. add an .md file)

5. git add changes

6. git commit and give a proper description

7. Repeat 4-6

8. git push to send the changes to github.

9. Go to https://github.com/<your user>/git-demo

10. Click create pull request

11. Write some nice description

12. Wait for {{site.github_username}} to approve and merge the update

Part II: Synchronizing with upstream

Updates to upstream will not automatically get into the fork.

1. create a new remote repository reference (following this quide)

   git remote add upstream https://github.com/{{site.github_username}}/git-demo.git

2. Sync with upstream (see this for details)

   git pull upstream gh-pages

3. resolve any issues

4. git push to send it to your own repository

Part III: more...

We have not talked about branches even though they are very fundamental.

Notice that we have bith master and gh-pages branch. See doc for reasons.