Welcome to Hacktoberfest 2020! Begin your Open Source Journey as a contributor by learning to make Pull Requests to a repository. What better place than here to do the same
- Fork this repository to your account by clicking the Fork button on this repo
- You now have this repo in your github account. You must be able to see it in 'github.com/your-github-username/hacktoberfest-20 '
- Go ahead and clone this repository from your account to your PC. At this point, make sure you have Git installed in your PC. Refer this documentation from git for instructions. By using the command
git clone https://github.com/<your-github-username>/hacktoberfest-20 - Open the cloned directory using your system's file manager. You must see two files namely awesome.md and README.md
- Open awesome.md using your favorite text editor and add your name to a new line at the bottom of the file in this format. Feel free to add your favorite emoji with the help of markdown emojis here
AwesomeName :sunglasses:This will look like this ⬇️ when opened in GitHub later. So keep going!
AwesomeName 😎
- After adding your name, save the file and close the editor.
- Now commit your changes by following the below steps
- Open terminal/command prompt inside the cloned folder
- Run
git add awesome.mdto stage the file for committing. - Let's commit! Run
git commit -m "Your commit message"Get creative with your commit message. You can follow the below format"[your name]: Add my awesome name"- For instance: "[ashwin]: Add my awesome name"
- Now let's get these changes to your GitHub repo. Run
git push origin master
- You are almost done! Now head over to the original repository from which you forked and click on Pull Requests
- From here, I'll leave you on your own. Make a stunning PR using this flashy green button
- Google will be your best friend in case you get stuck at any point from now. Now go ahead and make your first (awesome) PR!!