Hacktoberfest® is open to everyone in our global community. Whether you’re a developer, student learning to code, event host, or company of any size, you can help drive growth of open source and make positive contributions to an ever-growing community. All backgrounds and skill levels are encouraged to complete the challenge.
Hacktoberfest encourages participation in the open source community, which grows bigger every year. Complete the 2021 challenge and earn a limited edition T-shirt.👕
- Hacktoberfest is open to everyone in our global community!
- Pull requests can be made in any GitHub-hosted repositories/projects which are under Topic Hacktoberfest!
- For your Pull Request to be counted it should be labelled as hacktoberfest-accepted or should be merged to the repo.
- Sign up anytime between October 1, 2021 and October 31, 2021.
Download git from https://git-scm.com/downloads
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- Go to link:
Follow upto step 14 - Check is installed properly: Open command terminal and type in it->
git --versionHit enter - Message generated: It shows current version of git installed
- Getting an error: Just google the error surely you will get solution
- Go to link:
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- set your user name: In cmd type->
git config --global user.name "John Doe" - set email address : In cmd type->
git config --global user.email johndoe@example.com
- set your user name: In cmd type->
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🍴Fork the repository:
Look for the 'Fork' button in the repository pages -
💕Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/YOUR_GITHUB_USER_NAME/HacktoberFest -
😎Code Blooded:
Make changes to the project -
🗳Add the changes made to git:
git add . -
📝Commit the changes:
git commit -m "ENTER AN ATTRACTIVE COMMIT MESSAGE" -
📤Push the changes to the forked repository:
git push origin master -
🙏Send your Pull Request (PR):
After commiting goto the forked repository of your's and click on 'Pull request' and create one with an attractive name* -
🕤Wait wait and wait untill its approved or fix any bugs if markes
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🎉TaDa! You did it!
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- 📥Add master repo as upstream:
git remote add upstream https://github.com/aitoss/HacktoberFest-2021.git - 📥Fetch the changes to your local system:
git pull upstream master - 📤Push the updates to the online forked repository:
git push origin master
- 📥Add master repo as upstream:
- Write the name and description of the algorithm and then the code.
- Do not make SPAM PULL REQUESTS
- Add your name into contributors list
- This year first 50,000 people would get t-shirt
- If maintainer marked your pull request as spam then i wouldn't count as your contribution.