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You could make your changes directly to the master branch in your fork, but when contributing to a public repository, it’s standard practice to make the changes in a non-master branch within the fork. This way, you can easily keep your master branch up-to-date with master of the original repository, and merge changes from master into your branch when you are ready. Note for Windows Users:  The story has grown so large that it exceeds Windows' path length limit. If you encounter an error when cloning you can work around it by modifying a configuration setting. Run this command in git bash:  git config --system core.longpaths true .

In this example we will set the JAVA_HOME variable in Windows. The JAVA_HOME variable is used by applications to find the Java Development Kit installation. Find JDK Installation Directory First you need to know the installation path for the Java Development Kit. Open the default installation path for the Java Development Kit C:\Program Files\Java or C:\Program Files (x86)\Java There should be a subdirectory like C:\Program Files\Java\jre6 or C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6 Set the JAVA_HOME Variable Once you have the JDK installation path: Right-click the My Computer icon on your desktop and select Properties. Click the Advanced tab. Click the Environment Variables button. Under System Variables , click New. Enter the variable name as JAVA_HOME . Enter the variable value (one of the paths mentioned above) as the installation path for the Java Development Kit. Click OK . Click Apply Changes . You might ...