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Contributing to GitHub Projects

  1. Review contributing guidelines

    Frequently a repository will have guidelines for contributing. Your first order of business should always be to scope those out so your pull request will have a better chance of being accepted.

  2. Fork the intended repository

    Click the Fork button on the default page of the repo you want to work on.

  3. Clone your fork

    Once you have a fork of the repo in question clone your fork.

    git clone https://github.com/EXAMPLE/REPO.git

  4. Make your modifications

    Do your thing. Dig into the code. Fix what's broken. Add new features. Go wild.

  5. Push to your fork

    Put the changes you made in your local repository on GitHub.

    git push EXAMPLE_REMOTE EXAMPLE_BRANCH

  6. Submit a pull request

    If GitHub didn't automatically detect that you want to submit a pull request then click on Pull Requests and New pull request. Follow the instructions and then submit your request!

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