Open Source Contribution
This repository will help you to contribute open source on Github. It will cover all the steps you need to follow to do any kind of open-source contribution.
Install Git
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Git setup
To avoid any sort of error follow the steps, After installing Git on your machine, Open a terminal and run the following git command:
- Github username
git config --global user.name "username"
- Github email
git config --global user.email "email@example.com"
Fork this repo
Fork this repository by clicking the fork button. This will create a copy of this repository in your account.
Clone in your machine
Now go to your account and open the forked repository from your account and click on the code button, you will see a link to copy it.
- Open a terminal and run the following git command: Example
- step 1
git init
- step 2
link should be what you copied
git clone https://github.com/your-username/opensource.git
Create a branch
It is a best practice to create a new branch, write this in your terminal:
git switch -c anyname
Open name.txt file:
without closing the terminal
- 1: add your username and profile link of github in the below name.txt
Example
Last Part
save the file and go to your terminal again:
git add .
make sure to use ' commas ' after -m
git commit -m 'added (username) in the name.txt'
write your username inside (username)
Example:
git commit -m 'added (samadpls) in the name.txt'
Finally
git push origin -u your-branch-name
if above command give u an error, try this instead:
git config --global push.autoSetupRemote true
Go to your Github account
You will see the this
After merging it in your repository, open my repository again and create a pull request by going on the pull request option, then you will see this option
set dropdown compare option and select your repo, and send pull request.
congratulation now you know how to do opensource
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