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Re: Need help to start contributing

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Matheus Tavares Bernardino <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Date
Feb 3, 2020, 00:11 UTC
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Hi, Manav. Welcome!
On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 9:27 AM Manav Agarwal <dpsman13016@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hey there! I am a shell script and Linux kernel programmer and looking
> forward to making contributions to Git. May you please help me out
> with some getting started links. I would be very thankful to you if
> you could help me out with that.

You might want to start with the MyFirstContribution[1] and SubmittingPatches[2] doc files (they are also available at the 'Documentation/' dir of the Git repository).

Also, I wrote a "first steps" guide, which is available at [3]. I hope you may find it helpful :)

[1]: https://git-scm.com/docs/MyFirstContribution [2]: https://git-scm.com/docs/SubmittingPatches [3]: https://matheustavares.gitlab.io/posts/first-steps-contributing-to-git

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  1. Manav AgarwalFeb 2, 2020
  2. Konstantin KhomoutovFeb 2, 2020
  3. Matheus Tavares BernardinoFeb 3, 2020
  4. Shourya ShuklaFeb 5, 2020

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