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Will Pearse edited this page Jun 22, 2017 · 1 revision

Helpful GitHub commands & links

Many of these things might be familiar to you, but I figured it might be useful to have everything in one place.

The Basics

From Will's master repository, click the "fork" button in the upper right hand of the screen to create your own fork of NaTDB

Cloning your new repository is easy!

  git clone https://github.com/yourUserName/natdb.git

Once you've cloned the NaTDB repository to your computer, you'll need to be frequently committing and pushing your edits:
```
  git commit -am "message about commit"
  git push
```
You can also use git status to see what needs to be committed or pushed.
Other useful commands include:
```
  git add filename
```

Merging Repositories

When you're ready to merge from the master repository, follow the instructions on merging an upstream repository into your fork
This page from GitHub on collaborating issues and pull requests has a lot of information to wade through, but can be very helpful with learning how to merge and such.

Remember: when in doubt, ask the Google machine, then ask a person