First Contributions

This project aims to encourge self-learning and guide the DAIICT students to make their contribution, follow the steps below.

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

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

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:

git clone https://github.com/this-is-you/Inkling-GSOC2025-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 Inkling-GSOC2025-contributions

Now create a branch using the git switch command:

git switch -c your-new-branch-name

Add new branch name as your DAIICT ID: 202XXXXXX

For example:

git switch -c 202XXXXXX

Make necessary changes and commit those changes

Now open CONTRIBUTIONS.md file in a text editor, add your DAIICT ID and 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.

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 CONTRIBUTIONS.md

Now commit those changes using the git commit command:

git commit -m "contri(202XXXXXX): added 202XXXXXX to CONTRIBUTIONS.md"

replacing 202XXXXXX with your DAIICT ID.

Push changes to GitHub

Push your changes using the command git push:

git push -u origin 202XXXXXX

replacing 202XXXXXX with your DAIICT ID.

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.

Now submit the pull request. where Add this is you is written write this: contri(202XXXXXX): added 202XXXXXX to CONTRIBUTIONS.md.

Soon we be merging all your changes into the main branch of this project.