Your guide to kickstart first opensource github contribution

🙋‍♀️ What are Contributions

Software application who have their code-bases available online , for others to contribute by means of improving existing software system , adding new feauture and much more

🙋‍♀️ What are benifits of to projects

🟡 Hands-on / practical exposure to system 
🟡 Improved / changed perspective working with different tech-stack in integrated way 
🟡 Learn new skills & technologies 
🟡 Improved communication & accountability 

🙋‍♀️ How to select first for contribution

🟢 First step is to find the technology you are good in / want to improve your skills & find repositories related to it .
🟢 Find issues that are  having "open" , "goodfirstissue" label 

🙋‍♀️ Steps for Contributing

🔴 Find the relevant repository & fork it 

🔴 Clone the repository using 'ssh' / 'https' 

🔴 Git pull 

🔴 Open the repository in relevant folder & make required changes as per issue 

🔴 Check the status of changes made to the repository folder :

     🔺 Git status

 🔴 Recheck the status & add the changed files :

     🔺 Git status
     🔺 Git add .

🔴Git commit the changes made  :

     🔺 Git status
     🔺 Git commit -m "message" .

🔴Git push to master branch to merge changes in main branch  :

     🔺 Git push origin master

After all this process , you will be creating a PR (pull request) following all steps given above , when the maintainer of repository checks & will merge your PR in main branch , you'll be able to see the changes you made in main (master) branch .

And voila !! 🎊 Congratulations , yuo have made your first PR !

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