# Digital Ocean + GitHub

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-ocean-github/300436>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [March 21, 2024, 9:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-ocean-github/300436 "2024-03-21T21:04:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2024, 12:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digital-ocean-github/300436/3 "2024-03-22T00:06:54Z")

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> [@sinrider](#):
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> I want to create a repo that will allow me to download the codebase, make changes and then upload it back to Digital Ocean

You probably don’t want to do this. Although it might appear to be a great idea at the time, making changes to Discourse is best achieved with its fantastic plugin, theme and theme component architecture its developers have painstakingly provided for our benefit.

Maintaining a fork makes life very boring and unproductive and should arguably only be pursued if you intend to PR within a short timespan.

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