Create a pull request to ask your collaborator to merge your fork to the original repository

  1. GitHub: in your repository, click on ‘contribute’ and ‘open pull request’


  1. GitHub: make sure the base repository is the LMU Open Science Center’s original one and the head fork is yours, both set on their main branch (these repositories should only have one branch anyway called ‘main’. Branches are diverging versions of a file within a repository - we will not cover this concept today). Check that your requested merge does not create any conflict. In addition, write an informative message, explaining your changes to your collaborator, the author of the original repository. Click on Create pull request


  1. GitHub: you can now see a conversation tab around your pull request in the repository of the original owner: