Forking a repository

You will have to open a web browser and open https://github.com. Then, open the project that you want to fork. To create a fork, you have to click on the Fork button at the top:

This will initiate the process of forking, which means that a special copy of the project will be created and you will have the rights to change its code in that very copy:

Now, you can see that the project exists at the following address: https://github.com/{user-name}/YPImagePicker/.

{user-name} will be replaced with your GitHub username.

Note

We have to check if the project has some rules or policies when we want to make a contribution. This is individual for each project.

You have to checkout the project to make your changes. You can use the Terminal and execute the following command:

git clone https://github.com/{user-name}/YPImagePicker/

Here is how you can fetch the source code of the forked repository using the Terminal:

An alternative way is to clone the project using Xcode. Open Xcode, select...