Never made an open source contribution before? Wondering how contributions work in our project? Here's a quick rundown!
- Fork this repository by clicking on the fork button on the top of this page. This will create a copy of this repository in your account.
- Now clone the forked repository to your machine. Go to your GitHub account, open the forked repository, click on the code button and then click the copy to clipboard icon.
Open a terminal and run the following git command:
git clone "url you just copied"
where "url you just copied" (without the quotation marks) is the url to this repository (your fork of this project).
For example:
git clone https://github.com/name/Clone-IT.git
where name is your GitHub username. Here you're copying the contents of the Clone-IT repository on GitHub to your computer.
- After cloning the project in your computer, navigate to the project file using the command below.
cd clone-it
git remote add upstream https://github.com/Rayman-Sodhi/Clone-IT.git
- Check the remotes for this repository.
git remote -v
- Always take a pull from the upstream repository to your master branch to keep it at par with the main project(updated repository).
git pull upstream main
git checkout -b <your_branch_name>
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Perfom your desired changes to the code base.
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Track your changes:heavy_check_mark: .
git add .
- Commit your changes .
git commit -m "Relevant message"
- Push the committed changes in your feature branch to your remote repo.
git push -u origin <your_branch_name>
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To create a pull request, click on
compare and pull requests. -
Add an appropriate title and description to your pull request explaining your changes and efforts done.
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Click on
Create Pull Request. -
Congrats ❗ You have made a PR to the Clone-IT 💥 . Wait for your submission to be accepted and your PR to be merged.
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Wait for the pull request to be reviewed by a maintainer. Make changes to the pull request if the reviewing maintainer recommends them.
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Celebrate 🥳 your success after your pull request is merged!