Edit the docs locally

This document describes how to edit documents on your machine and submit your changes directly to our repository.

Prerequisites

• Account on GitHub.
• GitHub Desktop.
• Editor of your choice. We recommend Visual Studio Code or similar editors which let you browse files.

Clone the Spryker docs repository

1. Open GitHub Desktop.
2. Go to the Spryker docs repository.
3. Click Code > Open with GitHub Desktop. You may need to allow opening links in the desktop application. This opens GitHub Desktop with the Clone a Repository window. The fields are prefilled.
4. Optional: For Local Path, click Choose and select a suitable location to store the repository.
5. Click Clone. This clones the repository to your machine. When finished, you can see the current state of the repository on your machine. The Current Branch is master.

Create and publish a branch

1. To change the branch, click Current Branch > New Branch. This opens the Create a Brunch window.

2. For Name, enter a branch name that best describes your changes. The app automatically replaces spaces in branch names with hyphens. You don’t have to do anything about it.

3. Click Create Branch. This changes the Current Branch to the branch name you’ve entered. The branch exists only on your machine.

4. To add the branch to our repository on GitHub, click Publish branch.

Find the documents you want to edit on your machine

At this point, you are most likely to know which document you want to edit. To find the document on your machine, you need to look up its path in the URL. Open the document on our website and check the path starting from /docs/. For example, the URL of the document you are reading is https://docs.spryker.com/docs/scos/user/intro-to-spryker/contribute-to-the-documentation/edit-the-documentation-locally.html. The path of this document on your machine is docs/scos/user/intro-to-spryker/contribute-to-the-documentation/edit-the-documentation-locally.md. The path is relative to where you chose to store the repository.

Edit documents

1. Open the document you want to edit in an editor.
2. Add the needed changes. You’d help us a lot by following Markdown syntax and general rules, but it’s completely optional. We are grateful for your contribution in any form.
3. Save the edited document.
4. In GitHub Desktop, double-check your changes in the Changes tab.
5. Below the list of edited files, enter the name and description of your changes. The name of your fist commit will be used as the pull request’s name.
6. To add your changes to the branch, click Commit to {BRANCH_NAME}.
7. To publish the changes on GitHub, click Push origin. If you are editing in several sessions, it is good practice to commit and push after each session. If something happens to the changes on your machine, they will be safe on GitHub, and you will be able to keep working on them.

Submit changes for publishing

1. To prepare the changes to be published on the documentation website, click Create Pull Request. This opens the Open a pull request page with prefilled name and description.
2. Optional: Update the pull requests’s name to match the changes.

3. Add a description of what you’ve changed.
4. Click Create pull request. This refreshes the page and displays the created pull request. The status is Open.

That’s it. We’ll take it from here. During the review, we may post comments for your changes. Notifications about comments and PR status changes will be sent to the email address of your GitHub account. After the pull request is merged, the changes will appear on the website.