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You will first need to install git. Download from here.
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Now head here and click on the
fork
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On the next page you will see a
create fork
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You will land on your forked repo page, here you will see a
<> Code
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Open your terminal and type git clone and press enter.
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Now you will see a folder named
Welcome-to-Open-Source-Contributor
, open it and edit theREADME.md
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Below is a code snippet for reference which you will add in to the README.md file. Inside the
<b> </b>
tag you have to put your name, in the<href >
tag, you have to place your github profile URL. And you have to place your github profile photo url inside thesrc
tag, then in<p></p>
tag you add your LinkedIn and Twitter handle.<td align="center"> <a href="https://github.com/sayandeepmajumdar"> <img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/33932068?v=4" width="100px;" alt="Sayandeep Majumdar"/> <br /> <sub><b>Sayandeep Majumdar</b></sub> </a> <p align="center"> <a href="https://twitter.com/mesayandeep"> <img height="40" src="https://cdn-icons-png.flaticon.com/512/4096/4096132.png" alt="Sayandeep Majumdar"/> </a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/connectwithsayandeep/"> <img height="40" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/46517096/166973395-19676cd8-f8ec-4abf-83ff-da8243505b82.png" alt="Sayandeep Majumdar"/> </a> </p> </td>
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Now save your changes and exit the editor, type
git add .
, thengit commit -m "<your name> - from <country name>"
and lastlygit push origin master
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Go to your forked repo page,
sync
your fork and then there you will see a button in green which saysOpen pull request
, press it and in the comments section type "Adding my name to contributor list" and press oncreate pull request
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You have created a pull request, wait for review and merge it.