Using the Github UI to Make Pull Requests

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Github has a simple web interface that makes it very easy to propose a simple change to code. You do not need to install any software or do anything beside register for a git hub account.

1 Identify a change you want to make.

2 Find the file you want to modify on Github

3 Click Edit to open the file

4 Make your change

5 Scroll down and click the Propose file change button (add a note if you want).

6 Fill in any additional information in the pull request including a reference to the joomlacode issue.

7 Click Send pull request.

8 Make a note in the joomlacode issue with any a link to the pull request.