GDSC BPIT Hacktoberfest 2022

About Hacktoberfest

Hacktoberfest is digitalocean’s annual event that encourages people to contribute to open source throughout october.Hacktoberfest is all about giving back to those projects, sharpening skills, and celebrating all things open source, especially the people that make open source so special.

What is new in Hacktoberfest 2022?

Hacktoberfest welcomes people of any experience level to participate, and low-code and non-code contributions are fantastic choices for folks who don’t have a lot of technical knowledge. Here are some examples of ways you can contribute to open-source projects:

About Google Developers Students Club, BPIT

Google Developers Students Club, Bhagwan Parshuram Institute of Technology is a community where students grow their knowledge in a peer-to-peer learning environment and build solutions for local businesses and their community.

Hacktoberfest Rules

• If you want your contributions to count, please contribute only to those projects with Hacktoberfest/Hacktoberfest2022 label.
• Please repect other developers and their code. Be considerate towards others' code and if you want to raise any issue kindly mention it properly.
• Any violation to open source community(including scamming) would you lead to disqualification from the event.

How to get started?

Deployment

To deploy this project run

Step 1 : Fork the repository

• To start contributing, you need to fork this hacktober repository. For this, click the fork button as shown below.

Step 2 : Clone the repository

• Now to start working on it, you need to clone the repository in your local machine. Open your command terminal and paste the following.

  git clone https://github.com/<your-username>/GDSC-BPIT-Hacktoberfest-2022.git

Step 3 : Add upstream

git remote add upstream https://github.com/GDSC-BPIT/GDSC-BPIT-Hacktoberfest-2022.git

Step 4 : Creating Branch

  cd GDSC-BPIT-Hacktoberfest-2022
  git checkout -b <your-name>

Step 5 : Adding your changes

• Open the project in your code editor
• Modify the code while working on the issue. If you execute the command git status, you'll see there are changes.
• Add those changes to the branch you just created using the git add command:

git add .

Step 6 : Commiting your changes

• Finally, commit your changes using git commit command:

git commit -m "<your-name> message"

Step 7 : Pushing your changes to remote repo

• Now it's time to push your changes using the command below :

git push origin <your-branch-name>

Step 8 : Creating a pull request

• When you visit the forked repository you will see compare and pull request button. Click it and leave a description about changes for the better understanding.

Now you are good to go with Hacktoberfest

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