Hacktoberfest 2022

● Month long event.
● Encourages participation of Open Source
Software.
● Leads to personal growth, professional
opportunities, and community building
What is Hacktoberfest?

How to participate in
Hacktoberfest?
- Register for Hacktoberfest through their website.
- Have 4 pull/merge requests accepted between October
1 and October 31 to complete Hacktoberfest.
- Participants will get swag kits according to
hacktoberfest terms and conditions.

What is Open Source?
Open source itself states that code
which is freely available for everyone
and open for any modification and
redistribution.

Why Open Source?
● Working with teams will become cakewalk.
● Other interested folks can contribute.
● Help folks to connect and learn from different
communities.

Getting your
machine ready
- Git in personal machine
(download it from the given QR)
- A text editor
- A GitHub account

Working with
Git
Useful Commands
and their
application

Initializing folder as a git
repository
● Command: git init
● It will initialize the current directory into a
git repository

Cloning repository from
remote to local
● Command: git clone <repository link>
● It will help us to copy the whole code which is
stored on a git service (github) to our local.

Staging changes
● Command: git add <filenames separated with spaces>
● Contributors have to stage their changes
● It will be helpful if individual want to push only some
of the changes instead of the whole code.

Checking Status of changes.
● Command: git status
● Gives the status of changed/staged
files/not staged files.

Committing your changes
● Command: git commit -m “commit message”
● Updates local repository with the staged
changes.
● It will also help to track the history in future
and revert it if needed.

Pulling changes
● Command: git pull
● Used to update the local repository with
remote repository.

Pushing changes.
● Command: git push
● It will push the changes from local system
to the remote repository.

That’s All Folks!
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Hacktoberfest 2022

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