I wrote a tiny patch and I want to make a pull request on github. I'm confused as to how I'm supposed to be doing this because of a few things, but now mostly because I don't know how github works. Originally I used the fork button on github to fork the Dancer project. That got me "master" I think. I made a change, committed it, pushed it back to the server, and then issued a pull request. This was a month ago or so. Then xsawyerx notified me that the pull request was approved and all was well until now when I have another patch. I made another patch on my same branch and issued another pull request, but it pulled in again the original change I had made, so it looks like it didn't detect (somehow, I'm not sure how this is supposed to work) that my original change had already been pulled in. So I deleted my fork of the Dancer repo and started again with a new fork. I tried to follow the instructions here: http://help.github.com/fork-a-repo/ on forking and doing pull requests. After I forked I cloned to my local machine and then followed the instructions on "git remote add upstream" that would supposedly "track upstream" which I don't quite understand. When I did that it put me in the "devel" branch and my "master" branch disappeared. When I do git branch I get this list: * devel And that's it... So I checked in my change and pushed this *devel branch and I want to do a pull request. Is this correct? What happens when/if my change is accepted? How do I make github not include it on the next pull request? If I am doing something wrong please correct me. As you can tell I'm not very familiar with git and github (although I've been using cvs and svn for a really long time). Thanks, Brian