Alex Ortiz alexortiz201

Whether you're trying to give back to the open source community or collaborating on your own projects, knowing how to properly fork and generate pull requests is essential. Unfortunately, it's quite easy to make mistakes or not know what you should do when you're initially learning the process. I know that I certainly had considerable initial trouble with it, and I found a lot of the information on GitHub and around the internet to be rather piecemeal and incomplete - part of the process described here, another there, common hangups in a different place, and so on.

In an attempt to coallate this information for myself and others, this short tutorial is what I've found to be fairly standard procedure for creating a fork, doing your work, issuing a pull request, and merging that pull request back into the original project.

Creating a Fork

Just head over to the GitHub page and click the "Fork" button. It's just that simple. Once you've done that, you can use your favorite git client to clone your repo or j

Fixing npm On Mac OS X for Homebrew Users

If you just want to fix the issue quickly, scroll down to the "solution" section below.

Explanation of the issue

If you're a Mac Homebrew user and you installed node via Homebrew, there is a major philosophical issue with the way Homebrew and NPM work together. If you install node with Homebrew and then try to do npm update npm -g, you will see an error like this:

$ npm update npm -g

	// Types for the result object with discriminated union
	type Success<T> = {
	data: T;
	error: null;
	};

	type Failure<E> = {
	data: null;
	error: E;
	};

	const I = x => x;
	const K = x => y => x;
	const A = f => x => f(x);
	const T = x => f => f(x);
	const W = f => x => f(x)(x);
	const C = f => y => x => f(x)(y);
	const B = f => g => x => f(g(x));
	const S = f => g => x => f(x)(g(x));
	const P = f => g => x => y => f(g(x))(g(y));
	const Y = f => (g => g(g))(g => f(x => g(g)(x)));

	// NOTE: I added the .js extension to this gist so it would have syntax highlighting. This file should have NO file extension

	{
	// Settings
	"passfail" : false, // Stop on first error.
	"maxerr" : 100, // Maximum error before stopping.


	// Predefined globals whom JSHint will ignore.
	"browser" : true, // Standard browser globals e.g. `window`, `document`.