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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