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width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="日本語" alt="日本語" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/jp.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="සිංහල" alt="සිංහල" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/lk.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="Kiswahili (Kenya)" alt="Kiswahili (Kenya)" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/ke.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="한국어" alt="한국어" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/kr.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="Lietuvių kalba" alt="Lietuvių kalba" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/lt.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="Limba Română" alt="Limba Română" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/md.svg" width="22"> <img title="Limba Română" alt="Limba Română" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/ro.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img 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width="15"></kbd> <kbd><img title="Wikang Filipino" alt="Wikang Filipino" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/ph.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="English (Pirate)" alt="English (Pirate)" src="https://firstcontributions.github.io/assets/Readme/pirate.png" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="اُاردو" alt="اردو" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/pk.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="Polski" alt="Polski" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/pl.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="Português (Portugal)" alt="Português (Portugal)" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/pt.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="Русский язык" alt="Русский язык" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/ru.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="عربى" alt="عربى" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/sa.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="Svenska" alt="Svenska" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/se.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="Slovenčina" alt="Slovenčina" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/sk.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="Slovenščina" alt="Slovenščina" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/si.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="ภาษาไทย" alt="ภาษาไทย" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/th.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="Türkçe" alt="Türkçe" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/tr.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="中文(Traditional)" alt="中文(Traditional)" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/tw.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="Українська" alt="Українська" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/ua.svg" width="22"></kbd> 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src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/ng.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="Latvia" alt="Latvia" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/lv.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="Suomeksi" alt="Suomeksi" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/fi.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="Беларуская мова" alt="Беларуская мова" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/by.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="Српски" alt="Српски" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/rs.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="Қазақша" alt="Қазақша" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/kz.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="Bosanski" alt="Bosanski" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/ba.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="Bosanski" alt="Bosanski" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/et.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="Hrvatski" alt="Hrvatski" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/hr.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="پښتو" alt="پښتو" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/af.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="Af-soomaali" alt="Somalia" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/so.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="Español de Ecuador" alt="Ecuador" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/ec.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="Turkmen" alt="Turkmen language" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/tm.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="Ewe (TOGO)" alt="Ewe (TOGO)" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/tg.svg" width="22"></kbd> <kbd><img title="አማርኛ" alt="አማርኛ" src="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/hjnilsson/country-flags/master/svg/et.svg" width="22"></kbd>

First Contributions

This project aims to simplify and guide the way beginners make their first contribution. If you are looking to make your first contribution, follow the steps below.

If you're not comfortable with command line, here are tutorials using GUI tools.

<img align="right" width="300" src="https://firstcontributions.github.io/assets/Readme/fork.png" alt="fork this repository" />

If you don't have git on your machine, install it.

Fork this repository

Fork this repository by clicking on the fork button on the top of this page. This will create a copy of this repository in your account.

Clone the repository

<img align="right" width="300" src="https://firstcontributions.github.io/assets/Readme/clone.png" alt="clone this repository" />

Now clone the forked repository to your machine. Go to your GitHub account, open the forked repository, click on the code button and then click the copy to clipboard icon.

Open a terminal and run the following git command:

git clone "url you just copied"

where "url you just copied" (without the quotation marks) is the url to this repository (your fork of this project). See the previous steps to obtain the url.

<img align="right" width="300" src="https://firstcontributions.github.io/assets/Readme/copy-to-clipboard.png" alt="copy URL to clipboard" />

For example:

git clone git@github.com:this-is-you/first-contributions.git

where this-is-you is your GitHub username. Here you're copying the contents of the first-contributions repository on GitHub to your computer.

Create a branch

Change to the repository directory on your computer (if you are not already there):

cd first-contributions

Now create a branch using the git switch command:

git switch -c your-new-branch-name

For example:

git switch -c add-alonzo-church

Make necessary changes and commit those changes

Now open Contributors.md file in a text editor, add your name to it. Don't add it at the beginning or end of the file. Put it anywhere in between. Now, save the file.

<img align="right" width="450" src="https://firstcontributions.github.io/assets/Readme/git-status.png" alt="git status" />

If you go to the project directory and 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 Contributors.md

Now commit those changes using the git commit command:

git commit -m "Add your-name to Contributors list"

replacing your-name with your name.

Push changes to GitHub

Push your changes using the command git push:

git push -u origin your-branch-name

replacing your-branch-name with the name of the branch you created earlier.

<details> <summary> <strong>If you get any errors while pushing, click here:</strong> </summary> </details>

Submit your changes for review

If you go to your repository on GitHub, you'll see a Compare & pull request button. Click on that button.

<img style="float: right;" src="https://firstcontributions.github.io/assets/Readme/compare-and-pull.png" alt="create a pull request" />

Now submit the pull request.

<img style="float: right;" src="https://firstcontributions.github.io/assets/Readme/submit-pull-request.png" alt="submit pull request" />

Soon I'll be merging all your changes into the main branch of this project. You will get a notification email once the changes have been merged.

Where to go from here?

Congrats! You just completed the standard fork -> clone -> edit -> pull request workflow that you'll often encounter as a contributor!

Celebrate your contribution and share it with your friends and followers by going to web app.

You could join our slack team if you need any help or have any questions. Join slack team.

Now let's get you started with contributing to other projects. We've compiled a list of projects with easy issues you can get started on. Check out the list of projects in the web app.

Additional material

Tutorials Using Other Tools

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