Редактирование: Setting up git (раздел)

== Making a code change ==

If you know how to code in byond, here's how you would take your code changes and push them to the github repo to PR.

Starting from master (git checkout master), you want to run the command from gitbash '''''git checkout -b <BRANCHNAME>''''' , which will create a new branch on your repo with the BRANCHNAME name you selected (Note, branch names are public once you publish them later). 

Once your branch is created, you are now on that branch, and any code changes you make will be located on that branch. It's here that you would code the changes you are attempting to make. For example, lets say we change a single line of code on a byond file called ''code/modules/freshmemes.dm''. Once the file is saved, gitbash will see that you have created unstaged changes to the freshmemes.dm file. If you ever need to know what's commited or not, ''git status'' is your ally here. 

Next, you'll need to run the gitbash command '''''git add <filepath>''''', with filepath being code/modules/freshmemes.dm again.

Now that your changes are staged, you need to commit them. Run '''''git commit -m "<words>"'''''. Every commit that's pushed to a PR is labeled in order to work with that excellent version control mentioned earlier, so if you needed to revert your code back to a old commit, it's possible to do so, and well indexed. This would create a commit with the changes to freshmemes.dm, labeled <words>, but please god give your commits a slightly descriptive name, at least.

Now we're nearly done, all you need to do now is run '''''git push origin'''''. If it's your first time pushing this code to github on that branch, you'll be asked to instead run '''''git push origin --set-upstream <branch'''''>, where <branch> is your current active branch. This is normal and expected. Once that's done, on your fork on the github website, as well as on your local code, your same branch will be hosted. This will enable you to PR your code to the main repo without needing to devolve into a disgusting web-editor.