Open-Source-Essentials

Your Practical Guide to making Open Source Contributions!

Making Pull Requests

Pull requests are the way we contribute to group projects or open source projects

Step towards your First Pull Request!

• Open https://github.com/fykaa/Open-Source-Essentials in a new tab

• Make a change! Add your name in the above repository's Contributors.md file in order to make your first pull

Create a folder in your computer

• Right click to Open Git Bash Here

• Create a Git repository on GitHub

• Run following command on gitbash

 git init

• Fork the repository you created on github

• Clone your forked repository of the project

 git clone https://github.com/<your_username>/repository_name.git

• Navigate to the project directory

• Add a reference(remote) to the original repository

 git remote add upstream https://github.com/repository_owner/repository_name.git

• Check the remotes for this repository

  git remote -v

• Always take a pull from the upstream repository to your main branch to keep it updated as per the main project repository

 git pull upstream main

• Create a new branch (prefer a branch name that relates to your assigned issue

 git checkout -b <YOUR_BRANCH_NAME>

• Perform your desired changes to the code base

Check your changes

 git status
 git diff

Stage your changes

 git add . <\files_that_you_made_changes>

Commit your changes.

 git commit -m "relavant message"

Push the committed changes in your feature branch to your remote repository

 git push -u origin <your_branch_name>

To create a pull request, click on compare and pull requests

Add an appropriate title and description to your PR explaining your changes.

Click on Create pull request*9

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