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GitHub Open-Source Pull Request Flow

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GitHub Open-Source Pull Request Flow.md

1. Fork open-source project.
2. Create branch and make changes.
3. Push branch to your fork.
4. Visit open-source project and open a pull-request (select your fork’s branch).
5. Wait for your PR branch to be merged into the open-source project’s master.
6. Once merged, add the open-source project as a ‘remote’ (git remote add upstream <github.com/user/repo.git>).
7. git checkout master
8. git fetch upstream (convention states we use ‘upstream’ as the name of the remote).
9. git rebase upstream/master (alternative to fetch/rebase, is git pull --rebase upstream master).
10. git push origin master.
11. git branch -d <your-pr-branch> (the PR branch is no longer needed).
12. git push origin --delete <your-pr-branch>.