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title: How to clone a repo from Hainegroup and update it. Essentially following the doc from Oceanspy

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# How to clone a repo from Hainegroup and update it. Essentially following the doc from Oceanspy 

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- Go to Sciserver 

- Set your GitHub username and email address using the following commands:

```
$ git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
$ git config --global user.name "Your Name"
```

- Make sure you've forked a copy of the repo from hainegroup to your profile. 

- Create a local clone:

```
$ git clone https://github.com/your_user_name/shared-notebooks.git
```

- It will ask you for your password which is your authentication token. To set up your authentication token see here. https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-account-and-data-secure/creating-a-personal-access-token

- Move into your local clone directory, then set up a remote that points to the original:

```
$ cd shared-notebooks
$ git remote add upstream https://github.com/hainegroup/shared-notebooks.git
```

- Make a new branch from upstream/main:

```
$ git fetch upstream
$ git checkout -b name_of_your_new_branch
```

- Make sure that your new branch is up-to-date:

```
$ git merge upstream/main
```
- This is the branch on which now you make your edits

- To stage files ready for a commit, use the following command:

```
$ git add .
```

- To save changes, use the following command:

```
$ git commit -m "Message describing your edits"
```

- You can repeat git add and git commit multiple times before pushing the branch online.

- To push the branch online, use the following command:

```
$ git push -u origin name_of_your_branch
```

- Go to your shared-notebooks fork on GitHub (https://github.com/your_username_here/shared-notebooks) and click on Compare and Pull.

- Finally, click on Send pull request button to finish creating the pull request.


