noel-jose/mashithandu

A repo for beginners to do their first contribution in GitHub

mashithandu

About this repo

This is a repo for beginners to experience the path of open source contribution

Step 1

Fork this repo.

💡 search stackoverflow on how to Fork a repo in github

Step 2

Clone the repo from your profile

💡 search stackoverflow on how to clone a repo

Step 3

Now the repo is in your local directory. Open it in a text editor. Go to the blackboard folder and add your name to addName.txt file and save the file.

Step 4

• Go to the cloned repo using terminal/command prompt.
• Add the change using the command

git add addName.txt

• Commit your changes

git commit -m "commit by <insert your name>" eg: git commit -m "yourname"

• Push to your repo

git push origin main

Step 5

Now your change is in your repo. Go to the repo in your github account and see if it is there.

Step 6

Create a pull request to main repo in the organisation's account

💡 google how to create pull request to main repo

Step 7

Once the maintainer of the main repo accept your PR, Voila its there !