How to contribute to someone else's repository?

Question

I have a friend who has a repository in his GitHub account. I want to contribute (pull/push) to the master branch (the only branch) on that repo directly.

How would

Answer 1

Since you specified that you want to push directly to your friend's repo, your friend needs to add you as a collaborator in the repo settings.

However, given your inexperience with git, it would be better to take the indirect approach: fork the repo and use pull requests to move your changes into the main repo.