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Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open source, started by DigitalOcean in 2014, and encourages awareness of, and participation in, the open source community. In 2019 alone, there were over 483k pull requests opened across over 154k repositories , with participants from 142 countries - a truly impressive achievement by the community.

License: MIT License

hacktoberfest's Introduction

👨‍💻Hacktoberfest 2020: Click on the poster below to Register

Just add your name to the alphabetical list and optionally, a link to your GitHub account

Don't Forget to follow me

How to contribute

Fork the project (you can contribute to any of my projects)
Make any changes in your forked repo.
On this repo, click Pull Requests and raise a Pull Request selecting your fork on the right drop down

Questions can be asked by raising an Issue.

How to clone repo and make changes locally

  click on the clone button (green in colour). This gives you a copy of the project. Its now yours to play around with.

Using git on your local machine. Do this to download the forked copy of this repo to your computer

  git clone https://github.com/yourGithubUsername/hacktoberfest-practice.git

switch to the cloned folder. This can be done with Gitbash or the integrated terminal in the VSCode editor

  cd Hacktoberfest

Make a new branch. Your name would make a good branch because it's unique

  git checkout -b <name of new branch>

Open the file README.md
On a new line in alphabetical order, add your name and a link to your Github profile
For example ,
[Full Name](https://github.com/your-username)
Stage your changes

  git add README.md

Commit the changes

  git commit -m "Initial commit"

Check the status of your repository

  git status

Pushing your repository to github

  git push origin <name of your branch>

Pulling your request. Click on the Pull requests tab on the forked github repository. Note : A pull request allows your changes to be merged with the original project.