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clarify the double loading of myfriend
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rewrote Create pull process to reflect the current process
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Expand Up @@ -32,22 +32,36 @@ Say you want to contribute changes to someone else's repository (eg,
`git://github.com/` in the second case. I'm not sure why these need
to be the way they are, but that's what works for me.

- Also note the first myfriend does not need to be the same as the username of `myfriend`. You could very well choose:

$ git remote add repo_nickname git://github.com/myfriend/the_repo

- To check this `remote add` set up:

$ git remote -v

- Make changes to files.

- `git add` and `git commit` those changes

- `git push` them back to [github](http://github.com). These will go
to _your version_ of the repository.

- Note: if you get an error like:

error: src refspec master does not match any.
error: failed to push some refs to 'git@github.com:username/the_repo'

Then try `git push origin HEAD:gh-pages` [stackoverflow.](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4181861/src-refspec-master-does-not-match-any-when-pushing-commits-in-git) Typing `git show-ref` can show what reference to put after HEAD.

- Go to _your version_ of the repository on github.

- Click the “Pull Request” button at the top.

- Note that your friend's repository will be on the left and _your
repository_ will be on the right.

- Give a short explaination of the changes and click the “Send
pull request” button.
- Click the green button "Create pull request". Give a succinct and informative title, in the comment field give a short explanation of the changes and click the green button "Create pull request" again.


### Pulling others' changes
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