Hacktoberfest A month-long celebration of open source software 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.
There are two (2) ways to contribute to this project:
- Add your name to
CONTRIBUTORS.md
file - Add a small
Python
project/script of your choice
Click to view Instructions!
Folk this Repo by clicking on the fork button on the top of this page. This will create a copy of this repository in your account.
Now clone the forked repository to your machine. 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 https://github.com/{username}/Hacktoberfest_2021.git
Where {username}
is your GitHub username. This copies the contents of the Hacktoberfest repository on GitHub to your computer.
Change to the repository directory on your computer (if you are not already there):
cd Hacktoberfest_2021
Now create a branch using the git checkout command:
git checkout -b {branch-name}
Where {branch-name}
is your branch name.
Either add your name to the CONTRIBUTORS.md
file or add a small Python
program of your choice. When you are done, Add the changes to the branch you just created using the git add command:
git add <filename>
Now commit your changes using the git command
:
git commit -m "Adding <filename>"
git push -u origin {branch-name}
If you go to your repository on GitHub, you'll see a Compare & pull request button. Click on that button. Then submit your pull request.
🤩 You just completed the standard fork -> clone -> edit -> pull request workflow that you'll encounter often as a contributor!
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Here is a great tutorial for creating your first pull request by Roshan Josse
This project is Public Domain and licensed under the MIT License.