Work with LSU-VisTrails github repo¶

Fork the repo and get up to date contents¶

Got to github, find original repo: https://github.com/lsu-lesbutler/LSU-VisTrails
Click the “Fork” button at the top right.
You’ll now have your own copy of that repository in your github account.

Open a terminal/shell, clone the repo, get up to date with the source

git clone https://github.com/jinghuage/LSU-VisTrails.git
cd LSU-VisTrails/
git remote -v
git git remote add forksource https://github.com/lsu-lesbutler/LSU-VisTrails.git
git pull forksource master
git config --global push.default matching
git push

Make changes and send pull request : jinghuage/LSU-VisTrails¶

Change/add some files and push to your forked repo:
```
git status
git add
git commit
```

To create a branch and push to that branch:

git checkout -b branch-name
git push origin branch-name

Send a pull request from github website: https://github.com/jinghuage/LSU-VisTrails

Handle pull request : lsu-lesbutler/LSU-VisTrails¶

Using the github website:

Go to https://github.com/lsu-lesbutler/LSU-VisTrails
Click on “Pull Requests” at the top.
Click on the particular request. You’ll see their comments on the pull request, and can click to see the exact changes.
- If you want them to make further changes before you merge the changes into your repository, add a comment.
- If you hate the whole idea, just click the “Close” button.
- If you want to merge the changes into your repository, click the “Merge pull request” button.

Sync to local repo: jinghuage¶

Now at jinghua’s terminal, switch to master and pull
```
git checkout master
git pull forksource master
```
Push to local repo:
```
git push origin master
```