Welcome to Codefest 2019. To grab a seat in this competition what you have to do is make a pull requests. Follow the whole documentation.

Pull requests helps you to let the maintainer of the project know the changes you want to make to their project. Once a pull request (PR) is opened the project owner or the maintainers can review the changes and can merge them to their project or close the pr.

Here we are going to create a pr with changes in the codefest.txt file.

• Fork the repository to your GitHub account by clicking on the fork button in the upper right corner of the page.

• Now there are two ways for making changes to the file

  Clone the project to your local environment and edit the file (recommended):

  FOR THIS YOU NEED GIT INSTALLED IN YOUR LOCAL COMPUTER

  • Click on "Clone or download" button in your forked repositories page.
  • Copy the web url.
  • Run git clone CopiedWeburl in the terminal of your local computer. After cloning is done move inside the cloned folder.
  • Go to source/codefest.txt.
  • Type your name, email and I love devFest into the file and save it.
  • In the terminal run

    git add .
    git commit -m "Your Commit message"
    git push origin master
    

  • Now return to the forked repository in GitHub in your browser and click on "New pull request" Button.
  • Type I love devfest as the title of the pr and your name and email in the description box.
  • Click on "Create pull request" button and you are done!

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  Make change to the file on the GitHub site (easier):

  • In the forked repository go to source/codefest.txt file and click on the pencil icon to edit it.
  • Type I love devFest inside it and write some approprate commit messages then click on "Commit changes".
  • Now click on "New pull request" button.
  • Type I love devfest as the title of the pr and your name and email in the description box.
  • Click on "Create pull request" button and you are done!