Hacktoberfest is coming.
Coding is Fun! Do it everyday 💯💯
This Project is made for to help beginners to contribute to the Open source.
A month-long celebration from October 1st - 31st sponsored by Digital Ocean and GitHub to get people involved in Open Source. Create your very first pull request to any public repository on GitHub and contribute to the open source developer community.
Repo for you to raise a Pull Request and Take the first Step in the Open Source World.
Just add your name to the alphabetical list and optionally, a link to your GitHub account
- Fork the project
- Make any changes in your forked repo
- On this repo, click
Pull Requests
and raise aPull Request
selecting your fork on the right drop down
Questions can be asked by raising an Issue
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click on the clone button (green in colour). This gives you a copy of the project. Its now yours to play around with
- Using git on your local machine. Do this to download the forked copy of this repo to your computer
git clone https://github.com/yourGithubUsername/hacktoberfest_2021.git
- switch to the cloned folder. This can be done with Gitbash or the integrated terminal in the VSCode editor
cd hacktoberfest_2021
- Make a new branch. Your name would make a good branch because it's unique
git checkout -b <name of new branch>
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Open the file
README.md
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For example ,
- [Full Name](https://github.com/your-username)
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Stage your changes
git add README.md
or
git add .
- Commit the changes
git commit -m "Add <your-github-username>"
- Check the status of your repository
git status
- Pushing your repository to github
git push origin <name of your branch>
or
git branch -M main
git push -u origin main
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Navigate to your fork, on the top of the files section you'll notice a new section containing, a contribute button!
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Click on the contribute button, it will open a drop down, click the pull request button on the drop down Note: A pull request allows your changes to be merged with the original project.
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Wait for your changes to be merged
Hurray! You successfully made a contribution!
A GitHub conflict is when people make changes to the same area or line in a file. This must be fixed before it is merged in order to prevent collision in the main branch.
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To read more about this, go to Github Docs - About Merge Conflicts
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To find out about how to fix a Git Conflict, go to Github Docs - Resolve Merge Conflict