Cloning, editing and pushing to GitHub 👯♀️
Clone, edit and push a repository on GitHub | Beginner friendly
Hey! I’m Sulamita, a frontend content creator. I’m a self-taught developer and I’m sharing my journey by documenting everything I learn so that it can help others.
I was a professional photographer who had my own business in high school and through college. Overtime I realized that photographing people as a job was not for me.
I started graphic design and designed logos and websites for my husbands digital marketing company. I loved the design aspect of it but I wanted to learn how to code when my husband, Dennis Ivy started coding and needed help designing his projects. I began learning HTML/CSS and then JavaScript.
Eventually I got discovered by a recruiter on LinkedIn and got my first tech job for a SAAS company, Eptura, as a developer of user journeys. I took on a lot of tasks to custom code our docs site and anything else than can help me acquire more skills. I was able to double our traffic to new products on the dashboard.
Now I am a full time content creator and enjoying the process of learning and sharing about frontend development. I go to conferences with Dennis and share the journey on Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.
Cloning, editing and pushing to GitHub is a great way to contribute to open source projects and build your portfolio at the same time. It's also important to learn how to use git and GitHub because it's a skill that is required for most jobs in the tech industry.
Let's jump in! 🤿
Forking a repo
Login to your GitHub account
Find a repo you want to clone
Click "fork"
Fill in required information
When forking is complete, copy the url
Cloning the repo
Open the terminal on your computer and type the following commands:
cd Desktop
git clone https://github.com/sulamitaivanov/portfolio-website
Editing the repo
Open the cloned folder in your code editor
Open the file you want to edit
💡 If you want to preview what you're changing, open the terminal in the code editor and type npm i then npm run dev click on the link that appears in the terminal
Make changes to the code and save
Open terminal in code editor 💡 control+ back tick symbol
git status*optional
git addadd the name of the file you changed
ORgit add .to add all files
git status*optional - to confirm that the file has been added
git commit -m "message"
git push -u origin main💡 you can find the name of the branch on the repo page on GitHub. In this case the branch name is "main"Refresh the page on GitHub and you should see your changes
You will see a message asking if you want to contribute the changes to the original repo
Select the "Contribute" button then "Open pull request" button
Confirm that the information is correct and click "Create pull request"
You will see a message saying that the pull request has been created
Congrats! You've just contributed to an open source project! 🎉
