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Fork a repository
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Forking a repository is taking a copy of a GitHub repository and associating it to your own account space so you can make changes to the code base. Since you own this copy, you will have fetch/push access to the repository.
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We will first create a fork on the xcat2/xcat-core project so that we can work on functions without affecting the mainline (or *upstream*) code. Additionally, by creating a fork, you are able to generate *pull request* so that the changes can be easily seen and reviewed by other community members.
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* In GitHub UI, find a project that you want to fork and click on the "Fork" icon.
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.. image:: github-fork.png
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**Note:** The target is your own account space
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* After the fork is created, there is a copy of the repository under your own account
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``<userid>/xcat-core`` <-- forked copy
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``xcat2/xcat-core`` <-- upstream
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Clone the forked repository
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===========================
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* On your development machine, clone the forked repository from **your** account:
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**Note:** Ensure the clone is from *<userid>/xcat-core* and **not** *xcat2/xcat-core* ::
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$ git clone git@github.com:<userid>/xcat-core.git
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This now becomes the origin remote repository: ::
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$ git remote -v
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origin git@github.com:<userid>/xcat-core.git (fetch)
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origin git@github.com:<userid>/xcat-core.git (push)
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Configure an ``upstream`` repository
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* In order to get updates from the upstream project: ``xcat2/xcat-core``, you will need to add another remote repository to fetch from. ::
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$ git remote add upstream git@github.com:xcat2/xcat-core.git
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View the configured repositories: ::
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$ git remote -v
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origin git@github.com:<userid>/xcat-core.git (fetch)
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origin git@github.com:<userid>/xcat-core.git (push)
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upstream git@github.com:xcat2/xcat-core.git (fetch)
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upstream git@github.com:xcat2/xcat-core.git (push)
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