# Reccomended workflow to "patch" another person's package?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/reccomended-workflow-to-patch-another-persons-package/52220>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [December 22, 2020, 10:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/reccomended-workflow-to-patch-another-persons-package/52220 "2020-12-22T10:01:52Z")\
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Thank you… this should indeed work, but there isn’t any “shortcut” to avoid manually fork/clone/push ?

If I recall correctly, in the pre-1.0 era one could simply do:

- pkg\> develop pkgName
- [patch, commit & test]
- using PkgDev; PkgDev.submit(pkgName)

EDIT: I can see there is already [an other thread](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/recommended-way-to-develop-fix-with-packages/14436/8) on this exact question… on that thread it is stated that _“Once PkgDev is ready for 1.0 we hopefully have that workflow again”_ … but it was in 2018 :-/  
By the way, is there any difference between `] dev pkgName` and `] develop pkgName` ?

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