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Set up your fork

First you follow the instructions for :ref:`forking`.

Overview

git clone git@github.com:your-user-name/ipython.git
cd ipython
git remote add upstream git://github.com/ipython/ipython.git

In detail

Clone your fork

  1. Clone your fork to the local computer with git clone git@github.com:your-user-name/ipython.git

  2. Investigate. Change directory to your new repo: cd ipython. Then git branch -a to show you all branches. You'll get something like:

    * master
remotes/origin/master

    This tells you that you are currently on the master branch, and that you also have a remote connection to origin/master. What remote repository is remote/origin? Try git remote -v to see the URLs for the remote. They will point to your github_ fork.

    Now you want to connect to the upstream `ipython github`_ repository, so you can merge in changes from trunk.

Linking your repository to the upstream repo

cd ipython
git remote add upstream git://github.com/ipython/ipython.git

upstream here is just the arbitrary name we're using to refer to the main ipython_ repository at `ipython github`_.

Note that we've used git:// for the URL rather than git@. The git:// URL is read only. This means we that we can't accidentally (or deliberately) write to the upstream repo, and we are only going to use it to merge into our own code.

Just for your own satisfaction, show yourself that you now have a new 'remote', with git remote -v show, giving you something like:

upstream     git://github.com/ipython/ipython.git (fetch)
upstream     git://github.com/ipython/ipython.git (push)
origin       git@github.com:your-user-name/ipython.git (fetch)
origin       git@github.com:your-user-name/ipython.git (push)