Collaborating

We can find a project we want to collaborate on and clone it. Cloning makes a local copy of the files in a repository for you to work with. You can clone a repository and push changes to it if you're a collaborator and have read and write permissions.

How if I am not a collaborator?

You have to fork it on github.com before you can push changes to it. Fork means create a copy of existing repository that you can do whatever you want with. You won't be able to push your changes, but you can create a pull request on GitHub to the original owner and if they like your changes, they can merge them in.

Try it to start collaborating:

1. Search for "TeamPowered" in GitHub.
2. Choose "Clone or Download" and choose "Open in Visual Studio".
3. It will open Visual Studio and click on "Clone".
4. Because we are working on team, we should to create a new branch differ than our current "Master" branch.
5. Click on "branch" on the bottom-left screen, then "Manage Branch" or "Home" and then "Branches".
6. Right-click on master and choose "New Local Branch from".
7. Named it with "CleanupBranch". Remember, it is not synced with the remote repository yet.

Merge Branch

1. If we succeed in pushing our "CleanupBranch", think if somebody commit it in "Master" branch.
2. We'll need to get their changes into our branch so we can keep the chances of conflict to a minimum. We can try out ourselves by switching to the master branch and making some changes there.
3. Go to branches, double click on "Master" and notice our change went away.
4. We need to merge our branch with "Master"
5. Go to "branches", right click our branch and choose "merge from" master branch.