VIVO, Vitro, and OpenRif use GitHub to manage development and changes to the code, ontologies, data, and test scripts.

Organizations and Repositories

GitHub organizes repositories into organizations.  VIVO uses the following organizations:

• https://github.com/vivo-project – contains repositories for VIVO and Vitro
• https://github.com/vivo-community – contains repositories for VIVO community projects

Best Practice for Submitting Changes

1. Create a fork of the project that you want to contribute to (there is a button on the GitHub interface)
2. Clone the fork locally
3. Create a "feature" branch
4. Implement only the changes that you want to contribute in the branch
5. Push the branch to GitHub (in your fork)
6. In the GitHub interface, open a pull request from your "feature" branch

Additional Resources

• GitHub's Guide to Contributing to Open Source

• Start Using Git

• Git Handbook