So, you want to contribute? Great! We'll help you get started.

• Go to https://github.com
  • Create an account
    • It will ask you for your username, email, and password.
    • It will ask you which plan (free or paid).
      • Just choose the free plan.
    • It will also ask you to confirm your email.
• Go to https://desktop.github.com/ to download Github Desktop
  • Click download.
  • Run the program and follow the installation instructions.
  • When that is done, you will see a screen that says "Let's get started."
• In your browser
  • Go to https://github.com/JustinAnon/OurStruggle
  • Click the button that says "Fork" in the top right-hand corner.
  • You will now see your name and the project name in the top left-hand corner. BOOKMARK THIS PAGE
  • Click the green button on the right called "Clone or download"
  • Click the "Open in Desktop" button on the popup.
  • Click "Yes" when your browser asks you if you want to open this on your computer.
• In Github Desktop (that program you downloaded earlier)
  • You'll see something called "local path" which should have a path that resembles
    • "C:\Users[YOURNAME]\Documents\GitHub\PROJECTNAME"
  • Remember that path because that is the location where the files for the project will be located.
  • Now, click the "Clone" button

At this point, you have all the files you need set up in "C:\Users[YOURNAME]\Documents\GitHub\OurStruggle" You can go look at them if you would like. When you are ready to make changes to these files, go to the next section.

• In your file explorer
  • Go to that directory that you wrote down earlier
    • "C:\Users[YOURNAME]\Documents\GitHub\OurStruggle"
  • You will see the files in the project there.
  • Make some changes to these files or add some new ones to this folder.
• Open Github Desktop
  • You should see the files you have changed on the left and the contents that you added or removed on the right.
  • If there are any mistakes that you see, go back to those files that you changed, fix them, and when you are ready come back here.
  • In the bottom right-hand corner, you will see two fields
    • The top one is the title of your change
    • The bottom one is a description of your changes
  • Make sure you fill these out properly so we know what you changed.
  • When you have filled out those fields, click the blue button called "Commit to master"
  • Now, on the right, you should see a button called "Push origin." Press that.
    • This moves your changes from your computer to Github
• Go to your browser
  • Go to that page we told you to bookmark earlier, it should look like https://github.com/[YOURNAME]/OurStruggle
  • Notice that your files are now in Github.
  • If you are ready to get your files into the REAL repository, click the button on the left called "New Pull Request"
  • Then click the green button called "Create pull request"
  • Head to https://github.com/JustinAnon/OurStruggle/pulls
    • If you see your name, Congratulations! We will look at your request shortly and either accept it into the real repository, or give you feedback on what you need to change.

• If someone besides you makes an update to the main repository, you will need to update your repository to reflect the new changes.
• To do this, go to your Github page which should look something like https://github.com/[YOURNAME]/OurStruggle/
• On the right-hand side you should see a button called "New pull request" click that
• Below the words "Comparing changes" you should see an arrow pointing from your repository to the main one.
• We want to invert that arrow so that we can get the changes from the main one to yours.
• To do this, click the blue text labelled "switching the base" which should be near the middle of the page
  • Notice that the arrow is now pointing to your repository
• Now, click the green button called "Create pull request"
• Give the request a title
• Click "Create pull request"
• Now on this next page, click "Complete Pull Request"
• If it accepts without any merge conflicts, open up the Github Desktop application
• Make sure your repository in the top left is set to "OurStruggle"
• At the top-middle of the windows you should either see a button that says "Fetch changes" or "Pull origin"
• Click this button until it says "Last fetched just now" under Fetch origin
• Congratulations! That's it!