Contributing to a Github PR

As an open source maintainer, I spend a good amount of time mentoring and providing feedback on pull requests (PRs). In some cases, providing comments to a PR may not be enough and I’ve had the occasional need to step in and make code contributions back to a contributor’s PR. How to accomplish this was a mystery to me but these steps seemed to work well:

1. install the Github CLI (e.g., conda install -c conda-forge gh)
2. clone main (parent) repo (owned by me) (e.g., git clone https://github.com/TDAmeritrade/stumpy stumpy.git)
3. navigate to the PR page and copy the Github CLI command provided in the < > Code button in the upper right (e.g., gh pr checkout 595)
4. navigate to the cloned repo in your terminal & execute the CLI cmd in Step 3
5. finally, change the code (it will already be on the right branch), commit, and push

And that’s it! Thank you to all of those who chimed in with useful suggestions.