Create sandbox from fork (For new comer)
Please follow the steps below in order to update your sandbox to work with forked edx-platform
repository:
Create sandbox in usual way
SSH into your sandbox –
ssh <your-github-username>@<sandbox-dns>.sandbox.edx.orgsudo rm -rf /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform
– to change the remote you need to remove the existing edx-platform checkout- Add the following line to
/edx/app/edx_ansible/server-vars.yml
-edx_platform_repo: "https://github.com/<user>/edx-platform.git"
sudo /edx/bin/update edx-platform <branch-name>
- update edx-platform using the forked repo