typical-git-workflow.md

Git Help and Typical Commands

First, fork the triplea-game repo and clone your forked repo. By default the cloned repo folder will be 'triplea'.

(one-time) Add TripleA main repository 'upstream' as a git remote

cd triplea/
git remote add upstream git@github.com:triplea-game/triplea.git

Typical workflow

cd triplea/
git checkout master

## Refresh to latest code
# Update local 'master' with the latest code from the main project
git pull --rebase upstream master/

# Update 'fork' repository with latest 'master'
git push origin master/

## Start feature branch work flow, create a branch
git checkout -b "my-feature-branch-name"

## do work
git add <new-files>
git commit .
## Enter in a commit message and save,
## Double check files committed message looks good.

# push the branch to your fork
git push origin
## Check the output, look for the 'create PR' link
## Follow the 'create PR' web link

Read more about TripleA's pull requests process here.