Magit/Forge Fork And Create Pull-Request Cheat-Sheet For GitHub

The previous article covered the fork/create-pullreq workflow for GitHub without using a browser. It turns out that in learning by doing, I had made a few mis-steps that made things a lot more convoluted. Here is a quick cheat-sheet on how to do this exclusively with Magit/Forge.

1. Run M-x magit-status on your Git clone of the project to which you wish to contribute.
2. Add your GitHub user-id "tvraman" in my case to forge custom option forge-owned-accounts.
3. In the magit-status buffer above, type 'cf to create the fork and answer the prompts with the defaults as they appear in the minibuffer.
4. Create your feature branch, add your contribution and check-in.
5. In the magit-status buffer, type 'cp to create the pull-request.

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