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Learngit
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The goal of this project is to help YOU learn how to contribute to someone's project on GitHub.

This is a playground, and an educational tool.

Feel free to send pull requests and open issues.

If you do not already have an account with [GitHub](https://github.com), please sign up.

Add the output of this (your SSH public key) to Github under "Account Settings" -> "SSH Keys'


  cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Fork the other project to your own Github account (in the top-right corner of the page, click Fork) and clone to work with locally


  git clone git@github.com:YOUR_GITHUB_NAME/learngit.git

  cd learngit/

  git remote -v

Add a git remote for the upstream repository


  git remote -v

  git remote add upstream git@github.com:unixmonkey/learngit.git

  git remote -v

  git pull upstream master

Create a topic/feature branch (so you aren't working off of master)


  git checkout -b my_awesome_new_feature

  git branch

Edit some stuff and commit


  vi stuff.md

  vi README.md

  git status

  git add README.md stuff.md

  git status

  git commit

  git status

  git log

Push your changes to your Github fork


  git push origin my_awesome_new_feature

Go to Github and create a pull request from your commit

Wait for change to be merged in by original maintainer

Pull in merged changes


  git checkout master

  git pull upstream master

Delete your local topic branch


  git branch -d my_awesome_new_feature

  git log