Road to Hacktoberfest

Hello Developers! 👋

Let's help you submit your first Pull Request.

IF you are a total beginner have a look on these slides for getting started

Else Follow the below steps! To make your first contribution in this Pandemic vala Hacktober

Step 1

• Goto the GitHub repository of this project and fork the project to your account
• Click on the fork button on the top right corner of the repository page to do it.
• Once done, GitHub will take you to the forked copy in your account.

Step 2

• Clone the forked repository to your local machine.
• Click on the big green button saying "Clone or download" and copy the https url of your repository.
• Fire up the terminal (on linux systems ctrl+alt+t. on Windows open the Git-bash )
• Navigate to your desired directory and type the following command.
• Replace the link with the clone URL of your repository and hit Enter.

git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/GitInit.git

Step 3

• Let's start working on the changes required now! First cd into the cloned folder by typing the following command.

cd gitinit

• Now, Before jumping in to the code, make sure you're working on a different branch and not in master.
• To create a new branch, from the terminal inside your current project directory type the following command.

git branch YOUR_USERNAME-profile

• Replace the YOUR_USERNAME with your GitHub username or you can give any name to your branch which describes the purpose of the branch.
• Since here we're adding your profile, we'll simply give the name of the branch as above. eg: git branch kindavishal-profile.
• Once you have created the new branch we'll change the current brach from master to your newly created branch.
• Execute the following command on your terminal.

git checkout YOUR_BRANCH_NAME

Step 4

• In your file manager/terminal navigate to the downloaded repo.
• Open the sub-directory src/profiles/ and create a new .md filewith your favourite list as the filename with .md extension.
• It should look like Your_fav_lsit.md eg: movies.md
• Open this file in your favourite editor and fill the details according to your interest.

Step 5

• Commit the changes with a suitable commit message.
• First we need to stage all the changes we made.
• Open the terminal inside the project directory and execute following commands.

git add -A

• The above command stages all the changes, now lets commit it with a suitable message.

git commit -m "YOUR_COMMIT_MESSAGE"

• Replace "YOUR_COMMIT_MESSAGE" with a suitable message.

Step 6

• Let's push the changes to your repository
• Execute the following command to push all the changes to the forked copy in your GitHub account.

git push -u origin YOUR_BRANCH_NAME

Step 7

• Now, open your web browser and goto the original repository on GitHub.
• If your changes has been pushed to your forked copy, You'll be able to see an option saying "New Pull Request" in the original repository.
• Click on the option, on the next page, choose the master branch of the main repo against your created-branch name ( choose your branch name we created and not master).
• Then click on "Create pull request".
• Once you fill in the commit message and comment, click on "Submit Pull Request".

And you are all done! Wait for a reviewer to review your file and merge it to the master.