Clone/Push URL https://github.com/php/php-src.git SSH URL git@github.com:php/php-src.git Hint: set the push URL (https or git@) with (see also, Quickstart below) git remote set-url origin --push <URL> The PHP NEWS file has a special notion. It is manually merged and should not be touched. However using merges, git will automatically attempt to merge the NEWS file. To avoid this issue create a cust