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Welcome-to-open-source Contributor Guide

Steps to add yourself to the contributers list.

  1. You will first need git which you can download from here.

  2. Now head here and click on the fork button.

  3. On the next page you will see a create fork button, press it.

  4. You will land on your forked repo page, here you will see a <> Code button marked in green, click on it and copy the url.

  5. Open your terminal and type git clone and press enter.

  6. Now you will see a folder named Welcome-to-Open-Source, open it and edit the README.md file using any text editor, VScode for example.

  7. Below is a code snippet for reference as to what has to ADDED in the 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 lastly you have to place your github profile photo url inside the src tag.

    <td align="center">
        <a href="https://alisolanki.com/">
            <img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/55312000?v=4" width="100px;" alt="Ali Solanki"/>
            <br />
            <sub><b>Ali Solanki</b></sub>
        </a>
    </td>
     <td align="center">
        <a href="https://github.com/neeraj500">
            <img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/81459147?v=4" width="100px;" alt="Neeraj Madake"/>
            <br />
            <sub><b>Neeraj Madake
        </a>
    </td>
    
  8. Now save your changes and exit the editor, type git add ., afterwards git commit -m "<your name> 馃崏" and lastly git push origin master.

  9. Go to your forked repo page, sync your fork and then there you will see a button in green which says Open pull request, press it and in the comments section type "Adding my name to contributer list" and press on create pull request.

  10. You have created a pull request, wait for a member to review and merge it : )

Lastly, GitHub/Git are vital in open-source contributions, to learn more about them check this blog here.