How to submit a pull request to the Smoothieware Github project

Fork the original repositiory

Create a Fork in your github of https://github.com/Smoothieware/Smoothieware.git by clicking the Fork button

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You will now have a forked repository in your list of repositories

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Clone the forked repository

You can get the URL for cloning that repository by clicking the copy URL button

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On your local workstation clone the repository: git clone <your github fork of smoothie>

Create a new branch for your bugfix / feature

Create a fix branch with a descriptive name: git checkout -b fix/some-error

NOTE only one feature/bug fix per branch please

Edit the file to fix the error

PLEASE:

  • Check the fix!!!
  • Make sure your changes are coincide with our coding standards! (use 4 spaces per indent and not tabs, etc.)

Commit your changes and push it back on Github

Commit the changes: git commit -am 'introduced lots of bugs'

Push the branch to your github: git push origin fix/some-error

Submit your pull request

In github there should be a button that says pull request for that branch, click it

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Select edge as the destination branch, add comments

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PLEASE:

  • Check the Files Changed Tab in Github to make sure only the files you want to change are listed
  • Check that only the lines you want changed are changed

Submit the pull request

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