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Commit af34030c authored by Jaques Grobler's avatar Jaques Grobler
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Added a small note about the use of an upstream remote in the Contributions documentation

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...@@ -103,6 +103,16 @@ the web page of the repo, and click on 'Pull request' to send us a pull ...@@ -103,6 +103,16 @@ the web page of the repo, and click on 'Pull request' to send us a pull
request. This will send an email to the commiters, but might also send an request. This will send an email to the commiters, but might also send an
email to the mailing list in order to get more visibility. email to the mailing list in order to get more visibility.
.. note::
In the above setup, your ``origin`` remote-repository points to
YourLogin/scikit-learn.git. If you wish to `fetch/merge` from the main repository instead of your `forked` one, you'll need
to add another remote to use instead of ``origin``. If we choose the name
``upstream`` for it, the command will be::
$ git remote add upstream git@github.com:scikit-learn/scikit-learn.git
(If any of the above seems like magic to you, then look up the (If any of the above seems like magic to you, then look up the
`Git documentation <http://git-scm.com/documentation>`_ on the web.) `Git documentation <http://git-scm.com/documentation>`_ on the web.)
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