Let’s finally see how to contribute to an open-source project. We’ll use the NTC-Templates project as a practical example, for which I have

Let’s finally see how to contribute to an open-source project. We’ll use the NTC-Templates project as a practical example, for which I have already developed 46 patches .

Let’s assume we’ve already made the necessary changes, and now we want to propose them for official inclusion in the NTC Templates  repository.

Configure git

Configure some git mandatory options:

git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
git config --global user.name "Andrea Dainese"

Fork, clone, update and merge the latest changes

Fork the NTC Templates GitHub repository  via the web and clone the repository locally:

git clone https://github.com/dainok/ntc-templates

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