ShivamYadav-Coding / hacktoberfest-2021

This repository is made for people who wanted to learn about open-source and paricipate in Hactoberfest 2021.

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Hacktoberfest 2021 ✨

Welcome everyone!:raised_hands: This repository is made for everyone who wanted to learn about open-source and paricipate in Hacktoberfest 2021.

Hey there!👋

What can you do here?🧐

• You can solve questions put up by contributors (tag moderators in comment to assign an issue to you and mention the language you will be using).
• You can put up a problem yourself.
• You can even contribute a project made by you!
• Please read this issue click here for more information.

New to github? No problem :) Refer to these resources 🆕

• In Hindi Language -> Learn complete Git and Github in 1 video by Anuj Bhaiya: Youtube
• In English Language -> Complete Git and GitHub Tutorial: Youtube
• Git and github articles on atlassian.com: Website

Steps to put up an issue:📑

First let's see when should you create an issue?

• If you want to contribute a question or project.
• If you have a better solution to an existing solved issue.

To create an issue:

Click on the Issue button at top of the page:

Click new issue and fill up the details!

Note: Issues must clearly mention what they are addressing, if a problem is being put up then explain it using an example.

Get contributing🤩

Note: One must read CODE_OF_CONDUCT before starting work on any issue

First things first, In order to contribute you have to create a Pull Request from your forked repo which is a remote clone of this upstream repository.

1. Click this button at the top of screen to fork this repo, don't forget to star the repository!:
   

2. Now head over to the forked repository and copy the clone HTTPS URL:
   

3. Next up clone the forked repo on to the local machine using:
   

   git clone <copied-fork-link>

4. Run these command to add remote origin

   git remote add origin <The url of forked github repository>
   

   If this command give message like git remote already exist then run this command

   git remote set-url origin <The url of forked github repository>
   

5. It is critical to keep your forked repository in sync the upstream repository so merge conflicts can be avoided:

   git remote add upstream https://github.com/ShivamYadav-Coding/hacktoberfest-2021.git
   git fetch upstream
   git pull upstream main
   

6. Create a seperate branch to work on:
   

   The branch name must be selected according to the issue
   

   git checkout -b <branch-name>

7. Contributors must follow the directory structure guidelines:

   • All files must be kept in a directory.
   • Directory name must resemble the issue assigned.
   • Based on the language used, create a directory inside the language directory.
   • Example: If I am writing in Python I will create a directory inside Python directory.
   • In case a project is being contributed make sure to add the files inside a directory(name according to project) which in turn must be placed inside the Projects directory.
   • Changes done by you will not affect existing structure of the project.
   • Add a README.md with your name and link to github profile using [your-name](link-to-profile)

8. After the contribution work is ready go ahead and add it to staging area:
   

   git add -A

9. Now it is time to commit your changes and sync these changes to forked repo:
   

   git commit -m <your_message>

   git push origin <branch-name>

10. Issue a pull request from forked repo to this repo:
    

    • Head over to Pull Request tab in the forked repo and click on New Pull Request

    • Verify base and head repository name and branch names.

    • Fill in the title and provide a concise description.

11. Wait for respose on the PR. Congratulations you just contributed to open source!

Code of conduct 👨‍💻

CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

Labels 🏷

Issues labelled with language name e.g Python, mean that the particular issue has been assigned for language in the label

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