How to submit a Pull Request (PR)

[cemitch99]

To be done only once for each user:

1. Go to https://github.com/campa-consortium/lattice-standard.
2. Click the pulldown arrow next to Fork, click Create a New Fork, and specify your GitHub username in the Owner field (e.g., "cemitch99").
3. Click Code to view and copy the url for your fork
   (e.g., https://github.com/cemitch99/lattice-standard.git)
4. On your local machine, from the terminal, clone your fork:
   git clone https://github.com/cemitch99/lattice-standard.git

To be done each time to submit a PR, in your local repo:

1. Change into the working directory for your local repo:
   cd lattice-standard
2. Create a new branch with a descriptive name for the desired changes (e.g., "add_template"):
   git checkout -b add_template
3. Make the desired changes to the local files.
   For example, add a new file "pull_request_element_template.md"
4. View the proposed changes (optional).
   git status
5. Add the changes to your local staging area:
   git add pull_request_element_template.md
6. Commit the changes to your local repo, including an informative message.
   git commit -m "Add element template."
7. Push your changes to the remote repo.
   git push origin add_template
8. Follow the link that is generated to open a new Pull Request on GitHub that includes these changes.
   e.g., go to: https://github.com/cemitch99/lattice-standard/pull/new/add_template
9. Add a title and additional information relevant to the Pull Request (as needed).

[DavidSagan]

Do we want to put this in the Repo? Otherwise the instructions may get buried.