# Non-friendly documentation

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/non-friendly-documentation/38109>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** question, documentation\
**Created:** [April 23, 2020, 9:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/non-friendly-documentation/38109 "2020-04-23T21:24:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 7:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/non-friendly-documentation/38109/101 "2020-04-30T19:25:39Z")

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> [@purplishrock](#):
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> I’ve written simple examples for almost every single julia package i’ve used, and I just can’t bring myself to try and submit them to the docs because I know i’ll have to go try and figure out the PR thing again.

As has been mentioned before, for simple changes to the documentation, [the entire process can be conducted through the github website](https://help.github.com/en/github/managing-files-in-a-repository/editing-files-in-another-users-repository), without ever creating a local clone of the repository. It’s actually quite easy to do this.

If you do want to make a local clone of the repository, this guide might be helpful:

> [@Develop a local version of a registered package and submit changes as a pull request](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/develop-a-local-version-of-a-registered-package-and-submit-changes-as-a-pull-request/24868):
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> I’ve been working through how one would go about making changes to a registered Julia package and submit the changes as a pull request. I haven’t found one source that explains the whole process, so I thought I’d share what I’ve come up with here. Let me know if anything seems wrong or if there are better ways to do this! Also, I did find a nice [PR to the Pkg.jl repo](https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/pull/1145) that would add a lot of this to the Pkg docs, though the approach is slightly different from what I have below. You can use the…

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