Be sure you have completed steps 1 - 3 in the README.MD file.
Fork this repository by clicking on the fork button on the top right of the main page of the repository here. This will create a copy of this repository in your personal GitHub account.
Go to your personal GitHub account and click on the forked copy of the repository that should now be listed. Click on the green Code button.
Click the copy to clipboard icon or highlight and copy the listed url.
Open a Command Prompt (Windows) or Terminal (Mac )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/hacktoberfest_2020.git
where this-is-you is your GitHub username. Here you're copying the contents of the hacktoberfest_2020 repository on GitHub to your computer.
Change to the repository directory on your computer (if you are not already there):
cd hacktoberfest_2020
Now create a branch using the git checkout command:
git checkout -b <add-your-new-branch-name>
For example:
git checkout -b add-jane-smith
(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.)
Now open first_duty_station.md file in a text editor, and follow the instructions on what to do.
Be sure to 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 first_duty_station.md
Now commit those changes using the git commit command:
git commit -m "Add <your-name> to first_duty_station list"
replacing <your-name> with your name.
Push your changes using the command git push:
git push origin <add-your-branch-name>
replacing <add-your-branch-name> with the name of the branch you created earlier.
Now go to your personal GitHub account, click repositories, and select the repository you're working with. You'll see a Pull Request tab at the top.
Click on that tab and then click the green Create Pull Request button.
Make sure it has a subject typed in and add any comments if necessary. Click Create Pull Request one more time.
That's it! Soon we'll be merging all your changes into the master branch of this project. You will get a email notification once the changes have been merged.
Congrats! You just completed the standard fork -> clone -> edit -> PR workflow that you'll encounter often as a contributor!