Setting up your fork

Before reading this you should read steps 1 - 4 in Contributing to the project. After these steps you will be ready to complete the following process:

1. After cloning, change directory to your local copy of your fork of the Finesse 3 repository:

   cd finesse3
   

2. Now you want to link your repository to the upstream repository (the main Finesse 3 repo), so that you can fetch changes from trunk. To do this, run:

   git remote add upstream git://git.ligo.org/finesse/finesse3.git
   

   upstream here is an arbitrary name we use to refer to the main Finesse 3 repository. Note the use of git:// for the URL - this is a read-only URL which means that you cannot accidentally write to the upstream repository. You can only use it to merge into your fork.

3. Check that your remotes are set-up correctly with:

   git remote -v show
   

   This should give you something similar to:

   upstream    git://git.ligo.org/finesse/finesse.git (fetch)
   upstream    git://git.ligo.org/finesse/finesse.git (push)
   origin      git@git.ligo.org:<username>/finesse3.git (fetch)
   origin      git@git.ligo.org:<username>/finesse3.git (push)