Question

I have forked a private repository (an iPhone project) as follows:

cd nameofdirectory
git init
git clone forkedURL

Now I want to push the changes done by me to my forked repository so that the main admin can review my written code and merge it with the main repository.

How can I push the changes done by me to my forked repository using terminal on MacOS?

Answer 1

You can’t push into other people’s repositories. This is because push permanently gets code into their repository, which is not cool.

What you should do, is to ask them to pull from your repository. This is done in GitHub by going to the other repository and sending a “pull request”.

There is a very informative article on the GitHub’s help itself: https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests

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To interact with your own repository, you have the following commands. I suggest you start reading on Git a bit more for these instructions (lots of materials online).

To add new files to the repository or add changed files to staged area:

$ git add <files>

To commit them:

$ git commit

To commit unstaged but changed files:

$ git commit -a

To push to a repository (say origin):

$ git push origin

To push only one of your branches (say master):

$ git push origin master

To fetch the contents of another repository (say origin):

$ git fetch origin

To fetch only one of the branches (say master):

$ git fetch origin master

To merge a branch with the current branch (say other_branch):

$ git merge other_branch

Note that origin/master is the name of the branch you fetched in the previous step from origin. Therefore, updating your master branch from origin is done by:

$ git fetch origin master
$ git merge origin/master

You can read about all of these commands in their manual pages (either on your linux or online), or follow the GitHub helps:

• https://help.github.com/articles/create-a-repo for commit and push
• https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo for fetch and merge