Major Git projects commonly have a contributor workflow where other contributors fork a primary Git repository, make changes, and then contribute back to the primary project. This article describe the contributor workflow. The maintainer workflow is in a separate article.

The contributor forks the primary project Git repo. On the local copy of the fork, create a feature branch:

git switch -c add-feature1

Once the new work is complete, make the branch consistent with the primary repo by pulling in the latest changes from the primary repo:

git switch main
# whatever the primary or development branch of the primary repo is

git remote add upstream https://github.invalid/primary/repo_url

git fetch upstream

git rebase upstream/main

Update the local branch to remote main

git switch add-feature1

git rebase main

Test the final updated code. Create the Pull Request / Merge Request for the maintainer to evaluate the changes and possibly put them into the primary project.