Making your own copy (fork) of gitwash

You need to do this only once. The instructions here are very similar to the instructions at https://help.github.com/forking/ — please see that page for more detail. We’re repeating some of it here just to give the specifics for the gitwash project, and to suggest some default names.

Set up and configure a github account

If you don’t have a github account, go to the github page, and make one.

You then need to configure your account to allow write access — see the Generating SSH keys help on github help.

Create your own forked copy of gitwash

  1. Log into your github account.

  2. Go to the gitwash github home at gitwash github.

  3. Click on the fork button:

    ../_images/forking_button.png

    Now, after a short pause, you should find yourself at the home page for your own forked copy of gitwash.