GitHub web plus app workflow

My GitHub workflow for creating Pull Requests on other people's repos.

From: https://github.com/cclauss/GitHub-web-plus-app-workflow

These instructions should help when you want to contribute Pull Requests to a GitHub repository that you do not have write access to. This is a step-by-step process for using the http://github.com website and the GitHub Desktop app to make a local Fork of a repository and then make code or documentation changes and then Commit those changes and send a Pull Request to the repo's owner. The approach here is just to use the GitHub web pages and the GitHub Desktop app and not use git commands on the commandline which I find difficult to remember how to use.

I will assume that you have:

• a working webbrowser
• a GitHub ID
• GitHub Desktop app installed and configured with your GitHub ID.

In your web browser:

• Navigate to the GitHub webpage of a repo that you want to contribute to
• Click the "Fork" button at the upper right corner of the page
• Click the "Save local" icon (a computer with down arrow) below “Star" and “Fork" buttons and just to the left of the “Download ZIP” button

In the GitHub Desktop app:

• In the Open Dialog:
  • Make a "New Folder" with a name to match the GitHub username of the repo owner
    • This is optional but later on it will make things much easier to find
  • "Save" fork into user folder
• Click the "Sync" button (this is super important!!)
• Click the "Add a branch" button (this is super important!!) with a name appropriate to the kind of changes you intend to make
• Click the "Update from master" button (this is super important!!)

Ok... You are now free to make and test changes to the files in the local directory with your favorite Editor or IDE.

Once your changes are complete and all your tests have passed... In the GitHub Desktop app:

• Add a comment to the Commit
• Click the "Commit to " button (NOT to Master!”)
• Click the "Pull Request" button
• Add a comment to the Pull Request
• Click the "Send Pull Request" button

In your web browser:

• Navigate to the GitHub webpage of the repo and verify that the Pull Request is there and review all of the changes that you have made

If this does not work or is unclear, please open an issue.