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The above command git fork will also clone your personal fork to a local repository on your computer.

Multiple local clones

Creating a pull request

To create a pull request first create a If you are used to having one local clone of a repository for each change you are working on then that is also supported. The only difference is that you first create a local clone of your personal fork, then create a local branch in that the local clone . Fortunately the Skara git fork command is idempotent - if you already have a personal fork then you will just get that one. Therefore the following commands can be run by those preferring to have one local repository per change they are working onof your personal fork:

$ git fork https://github.com/openjdk/jdk JDK-8237566
Fork available at: https://github.com/edvbld/jdk
Cloning https://github.com/edvbld/jdk...
Cloning into 'JDK-8237566'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 1019523, done.
remote: Total 1019523 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 1019523
Receiving objects: 100% (1019523/1019523), 372.46 MiB | 4.99 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (761166/761166), done.
Updating files: 100% (68663/68663), done.
Adding remote 'upstream' for https://github.com/openjdk/jdk...done
$ cd JDK-8237566
$ git checkout -b JDK-8237566
Switched to a new branch 'JDK-8237566'checkout -b JDK-8123456

Do your work and then create a commit:

$ git commit -m "Fixed a race condition"

Finally create your pull request:

$ git pr create --jcheck --publish