Recommended way to develop/fix with packages

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To expand a little on previous answers, these are the steps:

  1. In the Julia REPL, ‘Develop’ the package. This will clone the package to ~/.julia/dev/Example 
pkg> develop Example
  1. Fork the package on GitHub
  2. On the command line, add your fork as a remote:
cd ~/.julia/dev/Example
git remote add upstream git@github.com:<your github username>/Example.jl.git
  1. Create a new branch, giving it a name reflecting the change
git checkout -b new-feature
  1. Make your changes
  2. Use git commit to commit your changes. Several commits can be made.
  3. On the command line, push the changes to your fork:
git push upstream new-feature
  1. Open a pull request on Github
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