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The Wiki pages are managed as a repository. So click on your repository, then on the left side click on Wiki. Finally on the upper right corner click on Clone Repository. There you will clear instructions on how to clone it correctly.
On GitHub.com, navigate to the main page of the repository. In the "Branch" menu, choose the branch that contains your commits. Above the list of files, click Pull request.
You can't fork it directly on GitHub, but you can get Git access to it by going into the Git access tab of the wiki and you should be able to fork it on your local machine and edit it as much as you want (and even get updates to it!)
GitHub doesn't support pull requests for the wiki repository, only the main repository (this is a bit of a shame, IMO, but I can understand it).
Here's an interesting way one project manages community updates to their wiki, while still keeping tight control, as for source code:
My proposed workflow is this:
- Manually create a fork of the Taffy wiki on your Github account:
- Create a new repository on your github account. Let's call it "Taffy-Wiki".
- Clone the Taffy wiki repo to your local machine somewhere:
git clone [email protected]:atuttle/Taffy.wiki.git- Remove the original "origin" remote and add your github repo as new "origin"
git remote rm originandgit remote add origin [email protected]:<YOUR_USERNAME>/Taffy-Wiki.git- Make your proposed changes locally, then push them to your github account:
git push -u origin master('-u origin master' only required the first time; afterwards just dogit push)- Submit a ticket to the official Taffy issue tracker requesting me to review your changes and merge them in. Please be sure to include a link to your repo and describe what you've changed.
- Goto #2
(From How you can contribute to Taffy documentation.)
If it were me, I'd create an issue in the main repository (that is, the one you forked) suggesting an update to the wiki. If issues aren't enabled, then email's about the only other option I can think of.
We have found the best solution for the problem so far in https://devonfw.com :
As we are 100% OSS we love to share our hard efforts to come to this great solution. Here are the links as example:
I've taken a different approach to this, which is to push exactly the same content into both the main repo and the wiki. This won't be to everyone's tastes, but Risk-First is mainly a wiki with a few Jekyll pages in the main repo.
This means the pull request/fork process works fine. However, after merging a pull-request I have to do the extra step of pulling to my local repo and then pushing to both the main repo and the wiki, which git supports fine with multiple origin URLS:
localhost:website robmoffat$ git remote show origin
* remote origin
Fetch URL: [email protected]:risk-first/website.git
Push URL: [email protected]:risk-first/website.wiki.git
Push URL: [email protected]:risk-first/website.git
HEAD branch: master
In order to achieve this, I merged the commits from both repos following this:
How do you merge two Git repositories?
And then push to both repos like this:
Git - Pushing code to two remotes
Hope this helps someone.
You can't do a pull request, but you can open an issue, paste a link to your wiki page, and let them merge in your wiki page to their wiki page.
They just need to clone your wiki page repo, (git clone YOUR_FORKED_REPO.wiki.git), squash all of your wiki commits into one big commit, then cherry-pick this big squashed commit onto their repo. That will bring in all of your wiki changes into their wiki.
(COPIED FROM Larry Botha's github gist HERE: https://gist.github.com/larrybotha/10650410):
Merge Wiki Changes From A Forked Github Repo
This is inspired (or basically copied) from How To Merge Github Wiki Changes From One Repository To Another, by Roman Ivanov, and serves to ensure that should something happen to the original article, the information remains nice and safe here.
Terminology
OREPO: original repo - the repo created or maintained by the owner
FREPO: the forked repo that presumably has updates to its wiki, not yet on the OREPO
Contributing
Should you want to contribute to the wiki of a repo you have forked, do the following:
- fork the repo
- clone only the wiki to your machine:
$ g clone [FREPO].wiki.git- make changes to your local forked wiki repo
- push your changes to GitHub
Once you are ready to let the author know you have changes, do the following:
- open an issue on OREPO
- provide a direct link to your wiki's git repo for ease of merging: i.e. [FREPO].wiki.git
Merging Changes
As the owner of OREPO, you have now received a message that there are updates to your wiki on someone else's FREPO.
If wiki changes are forked from latest OREPO wiki, you may do the following:
$ git clone [OREPO].wiki.git $ cd [OREPO].wiki.git # squashing all FREPO changes $ git pull [FREPO].wiki.git master $ git push origin masterIf OREPO wiki is ahead of where FREPO forked from, do the following:
$ git clone [OREPO].wiki.git $ cd [OREPO].wiki.git $ git fetch [FREPO] master:[FREPO-branch] $ git checkout [FREPO-branch] #checkout to last OREPO commit $ git reset --hard [last-OREPO-commit-hash] # do massive squash of all FREPO changes $ git merge --squash HEAD@{1} $ git commit -m "Wiki update from FREPO - [description]" $ git checkout master # cherry-pick newly squashed commit $ git cherry-pick [OREPO-newly-squashed-commit] $ git push
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