aljobiju / css-components

A project that helps beginners to contribute to open source community.

css-components

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 right corner of this page. This will create a copy of this repository in your account.

Clone the 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.

For example:

https://github.com/this-is-you/css-components.git

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

Before cloning the repository you just make sure that you have changed the directory to Desktop or to some other locations, To change the directory to Desktop run the following command:

cd Desktop

Create a branch

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

cd css-components

Now create a branch using the git checkout command:

git checkout -b <your-new-branch-name>

For example:

git checkout -b add-alan-mathew

(The name of the branch does not need to have the word add in it, but it's a reasonable thing to include because the purpose of this branch is to add your name to a list.)

Yeah, you did it 🥳🥳🥳

Now its time to make your contributions 🤩🤩.

For contributing view contributors.md