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Ranjit Odedra
Ranjit Odedra

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How To Contribute in Hacktoberfest

follow the steps to make a contribution

I considered that you already registered to hacktoberfest
if note click HERE

before you start working on any issue you have to ask owner of that repo that I am work on this particular issue.

assign

then maintainer will assign you that task

1. Fork The repo for first contribution

fork

for your 2nd , 3rd and 4th contribution each time you have to sync changes instead of fork
synk

2. Clone Repo to your PC

write this command in your terminal

git clone https://github.com/<your-username>/trendit.git
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for your 2nd , 3rd and 4th contribution each time you have to pull instead of clone

git pull
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3. Make changes that mentioned in issue

issue

4. push to you github account

Add all files

git add .
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Commit and provide message about what you did

git commit -m "message about what you did"
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push the code

git push origin main
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if you get any error in this steps then search in Stackoverflow
Hopefully you will find solution.

5. make pull request from your repo

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6. check in Hacktoberfest site

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after your pull request is merged you will this timer in hacktoberfest website

after seven days your pull request will be count

Now you are ready to get your goodies
be in first 40000

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