SilentCruzer / hacktoberfest-2021

Repo for beginner contributors to learn and make PRs

Hello Hacker !!

Welcome to Hacktoberfest 2021! Begin your Open Source Journey as a contributor by learning to make Pull Requests to a repository. What better place than here to do the same

Make your first PR!

1. Fork this repository to your account by clicking the Fork button on this repo

2. You now have this repo in your github account. You must be able to see it in github.com/your-github-username/hacktoberfest-2021

3. Go ahead and clone this repository from your account to your PC. At this point, make sure you have Git installed in your PC. Refer this documentation from git for instructions. By using the command git clone https://github.com/<your-github-username>/hacktoberfest-20 you can clone the repository.

4. Open the cloned directory using your system's file manager. You must see a folder called Contributors inside this folder you must see a README.md file.

5. Open the Contributors folder README.md using your favorite text editor and follow the following steps:

   • Copy

     <td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/Akshatji800"><img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/73401649?s=400&u=39e3769578c18ed0490372fa16dfd9259f1c78f4&v=4" width="100px;" alt=""/><br /><sub><b>Akshat Tripathi</b></sub></a><br /></td>
     

     and paste it in a newline by making a newline just after the arrow shown in the below image.

     and then change the href link with your GitHub account link, img src link with your avatar link and Akshat Tripathi with your actual name. To get avatar link follow these steps:

     • Login to your Github account and click on the profile icon which appears at the left most side of the page.

     

     • Then click on the big avatar which appears at the left side of the screen.

     

     • Then right click on the avatar which appears at the left side of the page and select Copy Image Address option.

     

     Cool ! you have copied the avatar link now you have to just paste it in place of img src link.

6. After doing all these, save the file and close the editor.

7. Now commit your changes by following the below steps

   • Open terminal/command prompt inside the cloned folder
   • Run git add . to stage the file for committing.
   • Let's commit! Run git commit -m "Your commit message" Get creative with your commit message. You can follow the below format
     • "[your name]: Add me as contributor"
     • For instance: "[Akshat]: Add me as contributor"
   • Now let's get these changes to your GitHub repo. Run git push origin master

8. You are almost done! Now head over to the original repository from which you forked and click on Pull Requests

9. From here, I'll leave you on your own. Make a stunning PR using this flashy green button

10. Google will be your best friend in case you get stuck at any point from now. Now go ahead and make your first cool PR!!