This repo is not included in the Hacktoberfest event, as it is for practice only We have other repositories in the organisation you can contribute to. If you would like to join our GitHub organisation, raise an issue on this repo Alphasians-Support
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. https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/ Use this project to make your first contribution to an open source project on GitHub. Practice making your first pull request to a public repository before doing the real thing!
Celebrate Hacktoberfest by getting involved in the open source community by completing some simple tasks in this project.
Repo for you to raise a Pull Request for practice.
Just add your name to the NAMES.md
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 a Pull Request selecting your fork on the right drop down Questions can be asked by raising an Issue.
click on the clone button (green in colour). This gives you a copy of the project. Its now yours to play around with
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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-practice.git
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switch to the cloned folder. This can be done with Gitbash or the integrated terminal in the VSCode editor
cd hacktoberfest-practice
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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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On a new line in alphabetical order, add your name and the link to your Github profile in markdown format
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For example , -
[Full Name](https://github.com/your-username)
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Stage your changes
git add README.md
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Commit the changes
git commit -m "Add <your-github-username>"
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Check the status of your repository
git status
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Pushing your repository to github
git push origin <name of your branch>
orgit branch -M main
git push -u origin main
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!
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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