I have a forked Yii which I use as a submodule in a couple of my applications. I haven’t made many changes, but most would probably not be useful most people. i.e. I put a conditional in that checks the version of PHPUnit and if it’s older than 3.5 it uses a different include file. Thereby letting me get around the limitation I have in one of my development environments.
My last commit, however, directly relates to an issue Yii had identified. So I wanted to push only that last commit upstream.
First make sure you have the upstream remote.
Then fetch from upstream — this creates upstream/master.
Then we create a new branch calling it upstream — not to be confused with the local remote we just created with the same name.
cd yii
git remote add upstream git://github.com/yiisoft/yii.git
git fetch upstream
git checkout -b upstream upstream/master
git cherry-pick
git push origin upstream
Then use something that was new to me, cherry-pick and give it the hash of the specific commit. That will merge over only that commit to the new branch you made. Then just push it.
From github, you can then make a Pull Request from that specific branch and contribute. Since that’s what it’s all about.
Helpful links:
https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo
http://kurogo.org/guide/github.html
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5256021/send-a-pull-request-on-github-for-only-latest-commit