Cloning downloads a repository to your computer, where you can work on it using your favorite tools. After you have made the necessary changes, you can commit and push the changes to the remote(i.e., github servers) from your local(i.e., your computer).
After you have created an account on github, I suggest you set up your local as described here, as it will make subsequent steps easier. After you have set this up, you should be able to run ssh [email protected] and see the following message:
$ ssh [email protected]
PTY allocation request failed on channel 0
Hi pranavgade20! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.
Connection to github.com closed.
If you see this, you are good to go!
To clone your repository, use git clone [email protected]:username/repo_name.git. Then, change directory to repo_name with cd repo_name. You can now use any editor to make changes to the files.
We will create a new directory called images and add an image to the directory. Go to repo_name and create a new folder called images. Then, take a screenshot of the output ssh [email protected] gives you, and add it to the directory.
Add the files to the staging area by running git add images/. Then, you can commit them with git commit -m 'commit message'. You can replace the commit message with a line describing what this commit is.
If you'd like to see the current status of the repository, you can git status.
To see the changes you will be committing, you can run git diff and/or git diff --staged. The first command shows the changes if the file isn't added to the staging area with git add. The second shows the difference in the staging area.
Finally, git push to push the changes to the remote. Assuming you have completed the setup properly, this step should be seamless.
After the changes are pushed, you can create a PR to the original repository, just like the last time.
Next steps are in BRANCHES.md