First you need to prepare a local git copy of our repo as well as your fork.
You can skip this section and proceed to Submitting Pull Request if you already got this under control.
Use either of these commands:
git clone [email protected]:wp-e-commerce/WP-e-Commerce.git
git clone https://github.com/wp-e-commerce/WP-e-Commerce.git
Fork WP e-Commerce by clicking that little "Fork" button on the top right of this page. Now you'll have your own {your_user_name}/WP-e-Commerce repo on GitHub.
Now you need to add your fork as a "remote" source on your local copy of WP e-Commerce. Use either of these commands, replacing "your_user_name" with, well, your user name.
git remote add my_fork [email protected]:your_user_name/WP-e-Commerce.git
git remote add my_fork https://github.com/your_user_name/WP-e-Commerce.git
Confirm that your fork is added as a remote source by running git remote, you'll see my_fork is listed along with origin.
Fetch your fork's contents so that it's all present in your local index.
git fetch fork
Confirm that all of your fork's branches and tags are all tracked by running git remote show my_fork.
Once you're done preparing your local copy, you're ready to make your change and submit a pull request.
It's generally recommended that you make a pull request as soon as you made a first commit to your fork (even though that is only the first commit of many commits to come), so that other developers can review your code as you progress. But if you prefer quiet, feel free to complete all your changes before submitting a pull request.
If you follow the instructions in Setting up your local repo section, the "origin" (which is the official WPEC repo) and "fork" (which is your fork) should be in the same local git repo. The command line examples below continue from that setup.
Now you need to create a local master branch for your fork's master branch:
git checkout remotes/my_fork/master
git checkout -b my-fork-master
git branch --set-upstream my-fork-master fork/master
Before making any changes, it's recommended that you create a local branch off your master and make your changes there. This should be repeated for each code change proposal or task you want to tackle.
git checkout my-fork-master
git checkout -b improve-coupon-ui
By doing that, you'll automatically be on fork-improve-coupon-ui branch. Make your changes and commit there.
When you're happy with your changes, push it to your remote fork:
git push -u my_fork improve-coupon-ui
Before submitting a pull request, please make sure there's already an issue ticket detailing the reason why you want to make this change. If there isn't, you need to create it. Basically we need to separate the comments on the issue and the comments on the pull request.
Once that's done, go to the official WPEC GitHub page and click the "Pull Request" button. base repo should be set to the official WPEC repo, and base branch should be set to master. head repo should be your fork, and head branch should be the branch that you made your changes on.
When specifying the title and description of the pull request, make sure you refer to the issue ticket explaining the reason why this change needs to be made (e.g. #2611 to refer to issue number 2611).
Once the pull request has been submitted, you'll need to monitor the original issue ticket and the pull request itself for comments and reviews. If you need to make further changes to your pull request, just commit as usual to your local fork's branch and push it to your fork. The new commit will show up automatically.
Also, you need to make sure your local copy as well as fork is always updated with latest changes in the official WPEC repo. Do these maintenance routines regularly:
Run these to pull updates to your local master branch (which is tracking origin/master):
git fetch origin
git checkout master
git rebase origin/master
Then run these to update your fork (push -f makes sure any diverging history gets overridden):
git checkout my-fork-master
git rebase master
git push -f fork master
Finally, rebase your pull request's branch upon your latest fork's master (or origin's master, either way is fine):
git checkout improve-coupon-ui
git rebase master
git push -f fork improve-coupon-ui