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authorNoah Spahn <noah.de@gmail.com>2020-10-22 12:07:04 -0700
committerNoah Spahn <noah.de@gmail.com>2020-10-22 12:07:04 -0700
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revisions to the forking instructions
main changes include a consistent reference to the branch name installing requirements before building locally an alternate method for adding a commit message
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@@ -35,12 +35,12 @@ access to the official codebase.
* Fork this project on GitHub https://github.com/vyos/vyos-documentation/fork
-* Clone fork to local machine
+* Clone fork to local machine, then change to that directory``$ cd vyos-documentation``
-* Change to your new local directory ``$ cd vyos-documentation``
+* Install the requirements ``$ pip install -r requirements.txt`` (or something similar)
* Create new branch for your work, use a descriptive name of your work:
- ``$ git checkout -b fix-vxlan-typo``
+ ``$ git checkout -b <branch-name>``
* Make all your changes - please keep our commit rules in mind
(:ref:`prepare_commit`). This mainly applies to proper commit messages
@@ -61,11 +61,12 @@ access to the official codebase.
unstaged files ``$ git add .``. All files added to the Git index will be part
of you following Git commit.
-* Commit your changes ``$ git commit -v`` - your configured editor will now ne
- launched where you can type in a commit message. Again please make yourself
- comfortable with out rules (:ref:`prepare_commit`).
+* Commit your changes with the message, ``$ git commit -m "<commit message>"``
+ or use ``$ git commit -v`` to have your configured editor launched. You can
+ type in a commit message. Again please make yourself comfortable with out
+ rules (:ref:`prepare_commit`).
-* Push your commits to your GitHub project: ``$ git push -u origin foo-branch``
+* Push commits to your GitHub project: ``$ git push -u origin <branch-name>``
* Submit pull-request. In GitHub visit the main repository and you should
see a banner suggesting to make a pull request. Fill out the form and