Forking PyKOALA
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Working on a fork enables you to develop your own copy of PyKOALA, contributing your code back to the main repository through a "pull request."

How to fork
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First, click “Fork this repository” on the main PyKOALA repository in github. You then have your own copy of PyKOALA in github.com/USERNAME/koala

.. figure:: ../_static/figures/fork_buttom.png

How to work on your fork
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Clone a copy of your fork onto a local machine:
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    git clone git@github.com:USERNAME/koala

This gets a copy of the entire repository. Here replace USERNAME with your GitHub username.


How to update your fork from the main PyKOALA repo
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Make a