Hacktoberfest is a chance to level up your coding skills and get small goodies in reward.
Repository designed for beginner to contribute to open-source
https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/
How to contribute Submit your pull request here for Hacktoberfest-2021 in any language you prefer, if language folder not present, create one as a part of it, after script add your name and GitHub profile into Contributors.md file.
Hacktoberfest is a month long virtual festival event to celebrate open source contributions presented by DigitalOcean and DEV. It is the easiest way to get into open source!
Event details Hacktoberfest® is open to everyone in our global community. Whether you’re a developer, student learning to code, event host, or company of any size, you can help drive growth of open source and make positive contributions to an ever-growing community. All backgrounds and skill levels are encouraged to complete the challenge.
Hacktoberfest is open to everyone in our global community! Pull requests can be made in any GitHub-hosted repositories/projects. Sign up anytime between October 1 and October 31.
Rules To qualify for the official limited edition Hacktoberfest shirt, you must register and make four pull requests (PRs) between October 1-31 (in any time zone). PRs can be made to any public repo on GitHub, not only the ones with issues labeled Hacktoberfest. If a maintainer reports your pull request as spam or behavior not in line with the project’s code of conduct, you will be ineligible to participate. This year, the first 70,000 participants who successfully complete the challenge will earn a T-shirt.
Getting Started Add your name to the CONTRIBUTORS.md file using following model Name: [YOUR NAME](Github Link) Place: city you belong to, Contribution : Issues/Update/New Feature About: Short Intro (Optional) Support Check Contribution Guide Before Contribution.
Instructions: Make sure you have a GitHub account. In case you don't have one, you can create your account by visiting https://github.com/ and clicking on Sign up option at the top right corner.
Register yourself for Hacktoberfest Link to register: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/ Click on "Start Hacking" and add your GitHub account.
Star and Fork this Repository You can star and fork this repository on GitHub by navigating at the top of this repository. GitHub repository URLs will reference both the username associated with the owner of the repository, as well as the repository name. For example, acmbvp is the owner of the Hacktoberfest repository, so the GitHub URL for this project is:
When you’re on the main page of a repository, you’ll see a button to "Star" and “Fork” the repository on the upper right-hand side of the page, underneath your user icon.
We’ll use the git clone command along with the URL that points to your fork of the repository.
This URL will be similar to the URL above, except now it will end with .git. In the cloud_haiku example above, the URL will look like this: https://github.com/your-username/Hacktoberfest.git
You can alternatively copy the URL by using the green “Clone or download” button from your repository page that you just forked from the original repository page. Once you click the button, you’ll be able to copy the URL by clicking the binder button next to the URL:
Once we have the URL, we’re ready to clone the repository. To do this, we’ll combine the git clone command with the repository URL from the command line in a terminal window:
git clone https://github.com/your-username/Hacktoberfest.git
cd Hacktoberfest Now, we’ll create our new branch with the git branch command. Make sure you name it descriptively so that others working on the project understand what you are working on.
git branch new-branch Now that our new branch is created, we can switch to make sure that we are working on that branch by using the git checkout command:
git checkout new-branch Once you enter the git checkout command, you will receive the following output:
Output: Switched to branch 'new-branch' At this point, you can now modify existing files or add new files to the project on your own branch.
Make Changes Locally Once you have modified existing files or added new files to the project, you can add them to your local repository, which you can do with the git add command. Let’s add the -A flag to add all changes that we have made:
git add -A or git add . Next, we’ll want to record the changes that we made to the repository with the git commit command.
The commit message is an important aspect of your code contribution; it helps the other contributors fully understand the change you have made, why you made it, and how significant it is. Additionally, commit messages provide a historical record of the changes for the project at large, helping future contributors along the way.
If you have a very short message, you can record that with the -m flag and the message in quotes:
Example: git commit -m "Updated Readme.md" At this point you can use the git push command to push the changes to the current branch of your forked repository: Example: git push --set-upstream origin new-branch
We’ll first go over configuring a remote for the fork, then syncing the fork.
git remote add upstream https://github.com/acmbvp/Hacktoberfest.git In this example, // upstream // is the shortname we have supplied for the remote repository since in terms of Git, “upstream” refers to the repository that you cloned from. If you want to add a remote pointer to the repository of a collaborator, you may want to provide that collaborator’s username or a shortened nickname for the shortname.
git fetch upstream Switch to the local master branch of our repository:
git checkout master Now merge any changes that were made in the original repository’s master branch, that you will access through your local upstream/master branch, with your local master branch:
git merge upstream/master
Navigate to your forked repository, and press the “New pull request” button on your left-hand side of your Repo page.
Hurray! You just got closer to completing your Hacktoberfest challenge.