- Fork the repository to your personal Github. Forking is basically an easy way to make a duplicate of the repository to your own account.
- Now that you have forked the repository to your account, go to the repository in your account, then click on the clone button and hit the copy to clipboard icon.
- Now, open a terminal on your local machine and clone the forked repository by doing: git clone
- For example: git clone https://github.com/itfibonacci/evolution.git
- Create a branch in git inside your local machine: git checkout -b - creates a new branch and switches to that branch in one command.
- Contribute to the project in any way you would like. There are no rules. You can add animations, fetch data from apis, etc.
- Stage your changes first by executing in the main directory of your cloned project - 'git add .'. Commit those changes by doing : git commit -m "Added to contributors list" . “-m” tells git that you are committing the changes with a message to tell people what the commit is about.
- Push those changes to the forked repository on Github via: git push origin replacing “ with the name of the branch you created earlier.
- Create a pull request on Github.
- As a final step, tag a friend on Linkedin that can contribute to the project.