Beginner-Repo

This repository is made for the beginners to get started with git contribution

Setup Git

• git config --global user.name "John_Doe"
• git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

Git commands you are going to use

1. git clone url (by cloning all the files in that repo will be available to your local machine + before cloning make sure to fork the repo to your acount)
2. cd RepositoryName(Beginner-Repo)
3. git checkout -b branch_name
4. git add filename.txt (after changing a particular file )
5. git add . (too add everything)
6. git commit -m "message" (it is recommended to commit with a message to tell what are the things you have changed)
7. git push (push it to the main branch now it will be available in github)

git push origin branch_name (it will push your code from local branch to the master branch) e.g git push origin devsg ( it will push branch devsg( local branch) to original repo's master branch , henceforth creating a PR)

8. git config --global https.proxy 172.16.102.28:8080
9. git config --global http.proxy 172.16.102.28:8080
10. git config --global --get-regexp http.*
11. git config --global --unset https.proxy
12. git config --global --unset http.proxy

First Contribtution

• To contribute to this repository, first fork the repository (you can see this in the right-hand column).This will create a local version of the repository in your GitHub account.

• git clone https://github.com/user_name/Beginner-Repo where user_name is your GitHub handle name e.g - https://github.com/pydevsg/Beginner-Repo

• cd Beginner-Repo

• Change from master branch to your local_branch git checkout -b local_branch where local_branch is your local branch name and is user defined from your Git Bash.

• Add your name in the Contributor.md file as given in the Contributors format

• git add Contributor.md

• git commit -m "comment" where comment is user defined and it can be anything meaningful from your side. e.g - git commit -m " Added my name"

• git push origin local_branch where local_branch is your local branch name and is user defined from your Git Bash.

• This will help you in making your first PR.

All the best for JGEC Winter of Code(JWoC). Keep contribtuing.:tada:

Author : Sudipto Ghosh 👨🏻‍💻