Editing a wiki on a github repo

Question

I am trying to edit and make changes on another persons wiki for their repo. I cloned it locally with the following:

git clone https://github.com/***/***.wiki.git

I then edited it and completed the desired changes. Now, how do I go about pushing said changes? Do I need to open a pull request for this and how would I go about it? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I tried to push changes on the same remote origin branch but I get the Permission denied (publickey) error.

Answer 1

There are two problems here. The first is that you actually seemed to have cloned at ssh linked git repository such as

[email protected]:/***/**.wiki.git

And thus why it is saying Permission denied (publickey). If you'd cloned a https git repo then you would type username / password.

As to how to edit a github wiki locally - By default the branch is master. If you choose to work on sub-branches to separate the work, then you'll need to merge to your local master branch and push. There doesn't seem to be a way to have pull requests for wiki pages.

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In summary:

1. If not done, setup your public/private ssh key in github - https://help.github.com/articles/adding-a-new-ssh-key-to-your-github-account/
2. Checkout your repo locally - git clone [email protected]:/***/**.wiki.git
3. Optionally branch so as to separate the work(s) - git checkout -b some_branch
4. Edit your wiki pages with a markdown editor (I used IntelliJ with a Markdown plugin - it can display the markdown on one page and the rendered page next to it, which is nice.)
5. Add and commit your work: git add page.md git commit -m "Added blah blah instructions"
6. Optionally merge back to master: git checkout master git merge some_branch
7. Push it back to the github repo - git push

Remember, you can't seem to be able to do pull requests with github wiki pages (since the only branch available through Github is master).

Answer 2

Not possible!

Though, you could open an issue to ask the mainter(s) to make the wiki publicly editable.