I think a lot of confusion stems from a lot of people who are only familiar with a single central repository for work where they have permission to push changes directly to the repository. However, Git is distributed. The historically intended way to collaborate with Git is to make your own fork of the parent repository, make your changes there, and then request the changes in your repository are pulled from your fork into the parent repository. This is how you contribute to a project you are not part of, and thus cannot push to, such as an Open Source repository.
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