# HacktoberFest 2022 (No Longer Participating in hacktoberfest)

THIS REPO IS NO LONGER CONSIDERED IN HACKTOBERFEST.
YOU CAN STILL USE THIS REPOSITORY TO LEARN ABOUT THE HOW TO GET STARTED IN CONTRIBUTING OPEN SOURCE & BASICS OF GIT.
THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THIS REPO WILL REMAIN THE SAME- TO HELP THE BEGINNERS IN STARTING THEIR JOURNEY IN OPEN SOURCE.
ALL THE PR AND ISSUES RAISED CAN STILL BE MERGED.

This project aims to help the beginners to contribute to the open source.

Don't forget to spread love and if you like give us a ⭐️

After completing all the below tasks your details will be published on this website:

What is Hacktoberfest?

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.

If you don't have git on your machine, install it.

Fork this repository

Fork this repository by clicking on the fork button on the top of this page.

This will create a copy of this repository in your account.

Clone the repository

Now the next step clonning, Go to your GitHub account, open the forked repository, click on the code button and then click the copy to clipboard icon.

Open a terminal and run the following git command:


git clone "url you just copied"

where "url you just copied" (without the quotation marks) is the url to this repository (your fork of this project). See the previous steps to obtain the url.

For example:


git clone https://github.com/this-is-you/HacktoberFest.git

where this-is-you is your GitHub username. Here you're copying the contents of the first-contributions repository on GitHub to your computer.

Create a branch

Now go to the directory where you have taken the checkout:


cd HacktoberFest

Now create a branch using the git switch command:


git switch -c your-new-branch-name

For example:


git switch -c firstContribution

Make necessary changes and commit those changes

1. Add your name (First Contirbution)

Now open Contributors.md file in a text editor, add your name to it. Don't add it at the beginning or end of the file. Put it anywhere in between. Now, save the file.

If you go to the project directory and execute the command git status, you'll see there are changes.

Add those changes to the branch you just created using the git add command:


git add Contributors.md

Now commit those changes using the git commit command:


git commit -m "Add <your-name> to Contributors list"

replacing <your-name> with your name.

Push changes to GitHub

Push your changes using the command git push:


git push origin -u <add-your-branch-name>

replacing <add-your-branch-name> with the name of the branch you created earlier.

If you get any errors while pushing, click here:

Authentication Error

remote: Support for password authentication was removed on August 13, 2021. Please use a personal access token instead.

remote: Please see https://github.blog/2020-12-15-token-authentication-requirements-for-git-operations/ for more information.

fatal: Authentication failed for 'https://github.com//first-contributions.git/'

Go to GitHub's tutorial on generating and configuring an SSH key to your account.

Submit your changes for review

If you go to your repository on GitHub, you'll see a Compare & pull request button. Click on that button.

Now submit the pull request.

Congrats you have succesfully raised your first PR

Soon I'll be merging all your changes into the master branch of this project. You will get a notification email once the changes have been merged.

Where to go from here?

You just completed the standard fork -> clone -> edit -> pull request workflow that you'll encounter often as a contributor!

2. Add your profile pic

Now go to the MyFirstContribution/userImageData

Here you have to add the profile pic that is being shown in the website.

Just add your profilepic with your Github username

Now Add, Commit with meaningful message.

3. Add your data to show the card on the website

Now go to the MyFirstContribution/script.js

Add your details to the script.js file

Now Add, Commit with meaningful message, raise PR. Note: Please raise a PR containing all the above three tasks.

Congrats, You have successfully contributed, now you can see your card will appear on the below website after successfully merging of your PR. Celebrate your contribution and share it with your friends and followers by going to Hacktoberfest

Ref: Firstcontributions

Keep Contributing!!

niteshjitender/HacktoberFest2022