# PR to stdlib

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pr-to-stdlib/25369>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [June 17, 2019, 2:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pr-to-stdlib/25369 "2019-06-17T14:55:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2019, 3:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pr-to-stdlib/25369/2 "2019-06-17T15:16:43Z")

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Did you branch? There are many descriptions on this forum, eg

> [@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…

> [@Recommended way to develop/fix with packages](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/recommended-way-to-develop-fix-with-packages/14436/2):
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> This is my workflow (for patching a hypothetical Example package): Get a local copy of the package, this can be done with pkg\> develop Example. This will clone the package to ~.julia/dev/Example by default. It will also make sure that the local copy is the one that is “installed” in the sense that using Example will use the files in that local folder. Edit the package in ~.julia/dev/Example and make sure your changes work as you expect. Fork the package on GitHub and add your fork as a remote.…

A PR to the Julia repo is conceptually not different from making a PR to a package.

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