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 If you want to see your package being provided by a channel, creating an issue will most likely not enough. It is up to you to create a [[Contributing to Nixpkgs|nix package description]] in Nixpkgs and create a pull request in the Nixpkgs repository. Pull requests are a way to tell a GitHub project that you've created some changes, which maintainers can easily review, comment on and, and finally merge into the repository.
-Here's how to create a pull request on GitHub:
+See [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-create-pull-requests How to create pull requests] in nixpkgs CONTRIBUTING.md.
-=== Fork Nixpkgs on Github ===
-Create a GitHub account and fork the [https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs nixpkgs repository].
-=== Add a remote ===
-On your host, create a new remote location:
-<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
-# add your github clone as remote location:
-YOUR_GITHUB_NAME=fill-in
-git remote add $YOUR_GITHUB_NAME git@github.com:$YOUR_GITHUB_NAME/nixpkgs.git
-</syntaxhighlight>
 === Hack Nixpkgs ===
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 sudo nixos-rebuild switch -I nixpkgs=/path/to/local/nixpkgs
-</syntaxhighlight>
-=== Commit your change locally ===
-Commit your change to your local clone of the repository:
-<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
-git add FILE_LIST # use git add --patch as needed
-git commit
-=== Check status ===
-Verify everything is ok - no unexpected dangling files git does not know about yet:
-git status
 </syntaxhighlight>