How to contribute on github?

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 14-05-2012 13:45, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Fri, 11 May 2012 18:34:45 -0400, Alex Rønne Petersen
> <xtzgzorex at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 12-05-2012 00:22, Mehrdad wrote:
>>> I haven't used git or github much. (Pretty much just once or twice, when
>>> someone added me.)
>>>
>>> How do I go about submitting potential changes to Phobos?
>>>
>>> (All I see on there is "GIT Read-only" which I feel is read-only, not
>>> something I can/know how to modify...)
>>
>> OK, so what you do is you fork the Phobos repo. You then set up your
>> local clone like so:
>>
>> $ mkdir phobos
>> $ cd phobos
>> $ git init .
>> $ git remote add upstream
>> git at github.com:D-Programming-Language/phobos.git
>> $ git remote add origin git at github.com:YourUserNameHere/phobos.git
>> $ git fetch origin && git fetch upstream
>> $ git checkout -b master origin/master
>
> Wow, this is way more complicated than it needs to be.
>
> $ git clone git at github.com:YourUserNameHere/phobos.git
> $ cd phobos
> $ git remote add upstream
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos.git
> $ git fetch upstream
>
> This should be enough to set up the dev environment in the same way you
> specified above. I recommend you use a new branch for any changes, like
> Jonathan said.
>
> Note that you must use https if you have read-only access, ssh isn't
> available.
>
> -Steve

Yes, I know it can be done much shorter, but to a beginner, the stuff I 
listed usually seems less 'magical'.

-- 
- Alex