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Asked: 2026-05-29T10:43:39+00:00

I am still not clear in this: I want to fetch code from opensource

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I am still not clear in this:

I want to fetch code from opensource project and contribute. But I want to make my private changes also, with possibility to contribute with publicly useful parts of code and make private changes in local repos.

I guess, the way will be:

  • clone remote repository
  • create a branch for remote version of code “project”
  • create local branch “customs”, where my customizations will be
  • “master” will be my finished customizations

Is then possible to remove some part of original code from my branch “customs”, witch will not be automatically synchronized from “project” again, but I still will be able to do contributions for original project? How can I do that?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could do the following:

    • Clone the repository.
    • The master branch should always be exactly the same as the original master branch. (Even though Git can still access the original master branch by using “origin/master” as a branch name if you need one I would still recommand to keep a local branch with it around. It’s a matter of taste, though.)
    • Create a branch for your customization; here you can modify everything to your heart’s desire, remove stuff, change stuff, whatever. Your changes here are not touched by what happens in the original repository unless you tell Git to. This branch can be pushed to a public repository if you want — if you don’t want anyone to see it, that’s fine, too.
    • Create one or more branches for your public modifications. These branches should be pushed back to the public repository so that the original project can benefit from your modifications if they so choose. If they do, your branches will end up being merged into master.
    • Now, finally, create a branch for your local build which will contain the original master branch, and both of your modified branches. I recommend not getting attached to this branch at all but recreate it every time you modify one of the other branches. This will guarantee that this branch (and your local build) will always contain a clearly defined state. I normally use the following sequence of commands to achieve this:
    git checkout local
git reset --hard master
git merge my-public1 my-public2 my-private1 my-private2
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