This is a repository to help people understand the essence of pull request and how to make their first pull request. In lay man's terms, a pull request enable an owner of a repository to consider suggestions to his/her code that can improve afew things in the next update or release. It is a big step on the road to becoming a hero of the open source community and a git ninja.
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Fork this repo onto your own github account. This is done using a button on the top of this page.
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Get the link for your copy of it in the "Clone or download" section. Make sure you are using your copy, not this one.
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On your computer, make sure you have git software installed(which can be downloaded @ https://git-scm.com/downloads)
confirm git configuration
git config --list
#Fresh Configuration
git config --global user.name your-name
git config --global user.email your-email
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Launch your command prompt or terminal
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Type cd documents
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git clone ***url***on command prompt or terminal. -
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cd pull-request-challengeto enter the cloned directory as your current workspace on your terminal
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Navigate to the folder(documents) to Open contributors.md and add your name and whatsApp number to the list.
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git add -A. -
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git commit -m "added *insert name here* to contributors.md". -
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git push origin master. Your forked copy of this repo on github will now have your changes. -
Go to the repo on github and you should be prompted about making a pull request. Click that button and submit the PR.
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You are done! Well done!