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.
Now clone the forked repository to your machine. Go to your GitHub account, open the forked repository, click on the clone button and then click the copy to clipboard icon ๐.
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/nameOfTheRepoHere.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.
Change to the repository directory on your computer (if you are not already there):
cd first-contributions
Now create a branch using the git checkout
command:
git checkout -b <add-your-new-branch-name>
For example:
git checkout -b add-alonzo-church
(The name of the branch does not need to have the word add in it, but it's a reasonable thing to include because the purpose of this branch is to add your name to a list.)
Now open Contributors.md
file in a text editor, add your name to it, with your Github profile link. 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 your changes using the command git push
:
git push origin <add-your-branch-name>
replacing <add-your-branch-name>
with the name of the branch you created earlier.
- If you go to your repository on GitHub, you'll see a
Compare & pull request
button. Click on that button.
- To submit the Pull Request(PR) write a
Title
,Leave a message
and pressCreate pull request
button.
- Soon I'll be merging all your changes into the master branch of this project. Starting Now !
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In the case when you kept the original repository git history, you have to update your repo from remote to avoid conflict and update your repo with others work. You can always pull and merge updates from the "upstream" repository back into your project by running:
$ git fetch upstream # Fetch (upstream) repository
$ git checkout main # Switch to the main branch (or, master branch)
$ git merge upstream/main # Merge upstream/master into the local branch
Or
$ git checkout main # Switch to the main branch (or, master branch)
$ git pull origin main # Fetch and Merge upstream/master into the local branch