The Ultimate Guide to Git for Open-Source Development
Initial Process To develop an open-source project, we must first Fork the Repository , as it is not our own project, and we don’t have write access. Once we fork the repository, an identical copy will appear under our account. We usually refer to the original project as the upstream repo and the forked copy as the downstream repo. Since we have write access to the forked repository, the first step is to clone it . Note that we should clone our forked repo, not the upstream repo. ...