First Contributions

First Contributions is a GitHub repository that guides beginners through their first open source contribution. It covers forking, cloning, creating a branch and sending a pull request.

The README gives step-by-step instructions with Git commands. It also links to tutorials that use graphical tools for people who are not comfortable with a terminal. The steps are a safe place to practice the workflow before you contribute to a real project.

• Step-by-step guide to forking a repository
• Git commands for cloning and creating a branch
• Links to tutorials for graphical Git tools
• Practice path for a first pull request
• Open source under the MIT license

Students and new developers who have never sent a pull request. Anyone who wants to learn Git and GitHub before joining an open source project.

The repository is open source under the MIT license, so it is free to use. You need a GitHub account and Git installed on your computer to follow the steps. The repository has about 56.7k stars on GitHub.