New to git, need help!

New to git, need help!

[Mayank Gupta]

Hi All,

I'm new to open source and have recently joined this mailing list.
Since I'm new at this, I think I can initially contribute to the
community by fixing some small bugs or errors but as the documentation
is too large, I don't know where to start.
So if anybody could guide me on how to go about it, it would be really
appreciated.

Thanks,
Mayank

Re: New to git, need help!

[Pranit Bauva]

Hey Mayank,

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Mayank Gupta
<mayankgupta18198@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm new to open source and have recently joined this mailing list.
> Since I'm new at this, I think I can initially contribute to the
> community by fixing some small bugs or errors but as the documentation
> is too large, I don't know where to start.
> So if anybody could guide me on how to go about it, it would be really
> appreciated.

It is really nice that you want to start contributing. We have a user
documentation[1] and a developer documentation[2]. To contribute to a
feature, firstly you need to learn about that feature. So go through
the man pages of the tool which you would want to work on. The things
that you would be using are documented in the technical documentation.
Apart from this, you can start hunting small errors but I think it
would be difficult in the initial stages. So read this[3] even though
it is specific for GSoC, it is helpful for any new developer. Also you
can search the mailing list archives for "low hanging fruit" to get
things which were thought of but not done or something like that.

[1]: https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/Documentation
[2]: https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/Documentation/technical
[3]: https://git.github.io/SoC-2016-Microprojects/

Hope to see a patch from your side soon! :)

Regards,
Pranit Bauva