In short:

login to github
go to http://github.com/cobbler/cobbler
click on the "fork" button
in your terminal: git clone https://github.com/<your username>/cobbler.git
cd cobbler
vim whatever you want to change
git status (see changed files, use git add/rm)
when happy: git commit -a (please use a useful description)
git push origin master (or whatever your remote and branch name is)
go to http://github.com/<username>/cobbler
click on "pull request"

then i'll get a notification there is a PR waiting, then i should verify and when happy merge your changes into the cobbler/cobbler repo
from there it can/should be backported to a release branch so that it gets into the next version of cobbler


On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Gary Algier <gaa@ulticom.com> wrote:
Hello:

I have patched a few things on my local copy of 2.6.5 and I would like to contribute the fixes back upstream.  However, when I asked before what to do with my fixes, I was told:
    Submit a pull request on github - https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler

Is there any sort of "using GIT to submit simple patches for non-GIT users" documentation?  I have no idea what a "pull request" is.  I don't know how to use GIT to get a copy of the 2.6.5 branch, etc.  I am familiar with other revision control systems, but GIT seems to be quite different and this seems to be a complicated process for a four line patch.  Is there a simple cookbook for how to do this?

Yes, I did read the documentation at:
http://www.cobblerd.org/manuals/developer/1_-_Patch-process.html
but this seems to assume I already know how to use GIT.

When I signed up at github.com, it said I needed to pay money for space.  Does this apply to one who is only submitting deltas to an already existing project?


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