Collaborative Github Workflow

From eqqon

Collaboration on Github is not complicated but also not intuitively clear for beginners because not all parts of the workflow are incorporated into the Github user interface. This description describes the structure of collaboration between the contributors and the maintainers github project. For every step in the workflow the respective git commands are given for reference.

The example

This description uses the project GitSharp a CSharp implementation of git as example.

The main repository also called the upstream branch is henon/GitSharp. The maintainers of this repository are responsible of merging in contributor's commits.

Contributor's Workflow

Getting Started

If you want to start contributing to a project on github the first thing to do is to fork.

.... work in progress ..... going to complete it in the next days.