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Pick the work

Lesson 1 of 3 in Ship a first pull request. About 5 minutes.

In this lesson you choose what to change and get a place to change it.

Steps

  1. Pick an issue, or open one. Every change starts from an issue: a short note that says what should change. Look at the open issues, or open a new one and say what you want to change. For anything bigger than a small fix, wait for an answer before you write code.

  2. Fork the repository and clone your fork. A fork is your own copy on GitHub.

    Terminal window
    gh repo fork mrviduus/textstack --clone
    cd textstack

  3. Create a branch from main. Name it fix/<what>, feat/<what> or docs/<what>.

    Terminal window
    git switch -c fix/short-name

Check yourself

  • I know the number of my issue.
  • My fork is on my machine.
  • I am on my own branch, not on main.

Next

Lesson 2: Change and check.