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You will first need git which you can download from here.
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Now head here and click on the
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On the next page you will see a
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You will land on your forked repo page, here you will see a
<> Codebutton marked in green, click on it and copy the url. -
Open your terminal and type git clone and press enter.
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Now you will see a folder named
Welcome-to-Open-Source, open it and edit theREADME.mdfile using any text editor, VScode for example. -
Below is a code snippet for reference as to what has to ADDED in the file. Inside the
<b> </b>tag you have to put your name, in the<href >tag, you have to place your github profile URL. And lastly you have to place your github profile photo url inside thesrctag.<td align="center"> <a href="https://alisolanki.com/"> <img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/55312000?v=4" width="100px;" alt="Ali Solanki"/> <br /> <sub><b>Ali Solanki</b></sub> </a> </td> <td align="center"> <a href="https://github.com/aryanmangrule402/"> <img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/132284891?v=4" width="100px;" alt="Ali Solanki"/> <br /> <sub><b>Aryan Mangrule</b></sub> </a> </td> <td align="center"> <a href="https://github.com/codewithgaani"> <img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/174890660?v=4" width="100px;" alt="Ali Solanki"/> <br /> <sub><b>Krishna Bhatt</b></sub> </a> </td> <td align="center"> <a href="https://bytemaster2000.github.io/"> <img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/181435418?v=4" width="100px;" alt="lakahmi priya"/> <br /> <sub><b>lakshmi priya</b></sub> </a> </td> <td align="center"> <a href="https://github.com/itsTIMUS"> <img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/55312000?v=4" width="100px;" alt="Ali Solanki"/> <br /> <sub><b>Sumit Saha</b></sub> </a> </td> <td align="center"> <a href="https://github.com/Sahitha03"> <img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/110535773?v=4" width="100px;" alt="Aluri Sai Sahitha"/> <br /> <sub><b>Aluri Sai Sahitha</b></sub> </a> </td> <td align="center"> <a href="https://github.com/neeraj500"> <img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/81459147?v=4" width="100px;" alt="Neeraj Madake"/> <br /> <sub><b>Neeraj Madake </a> </td> <td align="center"> <a href="https://github.com/misha141"> <img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/39346270?v=4 width="100px;" alt="Neeraj Madake"/> <br /> <sub><b>Misha Kumari</b></sub> </a> </td> <td align="center"> <a href="https://github.com/PriyatoshKumarShahi"> <img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/174815858?v=4" width="100px;" alt="Neeraj Madake"/> <br /> <sub><b>Priyatosh Kumar</b></sub> </a> </td> <td align="center"> <a href="https://github.com/Sathvik-Shetty-1569"> <img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/192092160?v=4" width="100px;" alt="Sathvik Shetty"/> <br /> <sub><b>Sathvik Shetty </a> </td> -
Now save your changes and exit the editor, type
git add ., afterwardsgit commit -m "<your name> 🍉"and lastlygit push origin master. -
Go to your forked repo page,
syncyour fork and then there you will see a button in green which saysOpen pull request, press it and in the comments section type "Adding my name to contributer list" and press oncreate pull request. -
You have created a pull request, wait for a member to review and merge it : )
Lastly, GitHub/Git are vital in open-source contributions, to learn more about them check this blog here.