I want to contribute my changes to the hibernate code base, as discussed in https://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1035961.
The problem is that the instructions for creating a branch, as specified on https://help.github.com/articles/creating-and-deleting-branches-within-your-repository#creating-a-branch don't work for me.
The instructions say 'Just start typing the name of your branch; if it doesn't exist, GitHub will offer to create it for you', but in my case it doesn't offer anything :(
Extra question: am I supposed to do my changes on the master branch or on 3.6 ?

Hi,
thanks for the help.

Assuming you have already forked and cloned the project locally (https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo), what I usually do to create a branch on GitHub is:

1) Create the new branch:


2) Push the new branch on my remote repository (origin is a fork of the project I want to send the patch)


3) You should be able to see the new branch in the GitHub page of your project

This will create the branch NEW_BRANCH on you remote repository. I've never used the GitHub interface.

Hope this help,
Davide