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My First Fork

Objective - To fork a project, add, commit, and push a single change upstream.
Objective - To familiarize with basic git commands

Part 1 - Forking the Project

To fork the project, click the Fork button located at the top right of the project.

Part 2 - Navigating to forked Repository

Navigate to your github profile to find the newly forked repository.
Copy the URL of the project to the clipboard.

Part 3 - Cloning forked repository

Clone the repository from your account into the ~/dev directory.
- if you do not have a ~/dev directory, make one by executing the following command:
  - mkdir ~/dev
- navigate to the ~/dev directory by executing the following command:
  - cd ~/dev
- clone the project by executing the following command:
  - git clone https://github.com/MyUserName/my-first-fork.git

Part 4 - Opening cloned project

from a text editor (i.e. - Visual Studio Code), select:
- File > Add Folder to WorkSpace
  - select the dev directory
- from the text editor, in the dev directory, locate the newly cloned project
  - expand the project from the project explorer
  - modify the my-details.txt file to include your full name, college-classification, major, and minor

Part 5 - Pushing new changes to repository

from a terminal navigate to the root directory of the cloned project.
from the root directory of the project, execute the following commands:
- add all changes
  - git add .
- commit changes to be pushed
  - git commit -m 'I have added my name to the text file!'
- push changes to your repository
  - git push -u origin master

Part 6 - Submitting assignment

from the browser, navigate to the forked project from your github account.
click the Pull Requests tab.
select New Pull Request

Part 7 - Ensuring project has been submitted

Upon submission, your name, and a link to your project should be made available by clicking here