Git authors
Introduction
We need your help to contribute to this project!
If you are interested in moving your script in to the repository, please read through these options.
Github user setup
Create a free account at github
https://github.com/plans
Then go to
https://github.com/Pymol-Scripts/Pymol-script-repo
Near the top right corner, click: Fork
In the top left corner, it should now say: YOUR_NAME / Pymol-script-repo. This is your own repository.
Click HTTP in the middle. We will use this, and it should be like.
https://YOUR_NAME@github.com/YOUR_NAME/Pymol-script-repo.git
Online - make changes to a file
You can change a file online, by clicking it, and then at the right side, click Edit this file.
Make changes, write a "commit message", and in the lower right, click Commit changes.
If you want to your changes to be part of the official repository, click Pull Request, and write a message.
This will notify the group of admins to review your changes.
If the changes reasonable and not malicious for the computer, your Pull Request will quickly be in the official repository.
Note, that you can not add files online.
Git setup
The next setup can be followed for both linux and windows users, if windows users use the Bash terminal.
Linux users use the terminal.
- Navigate to C:/Users/YOURNAME/Documents/Pymol-script-repo OR /home/YOURNAME/Software/pymol/Pymol-script-repo
- Right click in folder -> Select: Git Bash
- Write in terminal