Pull request without forking?

Jasper picture Jasper · Feb 11, 2013 · Viewed 34k times · Source

Here are steps of code contribution from the topic "How do I contribute to other's code in GitHub?"

  1. Fork the project
  2. Make one or more well commented and clean commits to the repository. You can make a new branch here if you are modifying more than one part or feature.
  3. Perform a pull request in github's web interface.

Is it possible to make a pull request without forking a repo?

It's quite sad to see more than 20 repos in my account which were forked for some pull requests. They have no activity then and zero stars / followers. Looks like I'm just copying somebody's code for a black day.

Answer

Ryan Bigg picture Ryan Bigg · Feb 11, 2013

If you don't have access to create branches on that repository, there is no way to create a pull request without forking.