My First Fork

• Objective - To fork a project, add, commit, and push a single change upstream.
• Objective - To familiarize with basic git commands

Part 1 - Forking the Project

• To fork the project, click the Fork button located at the top right of the project.

Part 2 - Navigating to forked Repository

• Navigate to your github profile to find the newly forked repository.
• Copy the URL of the project to the clipboard.

Part 3 - Cloning forked repository

• Clone the repository from your account into the ~/dev directory.
  • if you do not have a ~/dev directory, make one by executing the following command:
    • mkdir ~/dev
  • navigate to the ~/dev directory by executing the following command:
    • cd ~/dev
  • clone the project by executing the following command:
    • git clone https://github.com/MyUserName/my-first-fork.git

Part 4 - Opening cloned project

• from a text editor (i.e. - Visual Studio Code), select:
  • File > Add Folder to WorkSpace
    • select the dev directory
  • from the text editor, in the dev directory, locate the newly cloned project
    • expand the project from the project explorer
    • modify the my-details.txt file to include your full name, college-classification, major, and minor

Part 5 - Pushing new changes to repository

• from a terminal navigate to the root directory of the cloned project.
• from the root directory of the project, execute the following commands:
  • add all changes
    • git add .
  • commit changes to be pushed
    • git commit -m 'I have added my name to the text file!'
  • push changes to your repository
    • git push -u origin master

Part 6 - Submitting assignment

• from the browser, navigate to the forked project from your github account.
• click the Pull Requests tab.
• select New Pull Request

Part 7 - Ensuring project has been submitted

• Upon submission, your name, and a link to your project should be made available by clicking here