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Your first pull request

Six steps, on this site's own repo. Walk them here, then do them for real.

Your first pull request, step by step

Your own copy, under your account. Nothing here touches the live site.

Click Fork, top right of the repo.

Pull it down to your machine so you can open the files.

            git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/website.git
cd website
npm install

Never work on main. Give your change its own shelf.

            git checkout -b fix/readme-typo

A typo, a dead link, a stale line. Small is the point.

            npm run build

Build before you commit, so you know nothing broke.

Say what changed, not how you changed it.

            git add .
git commit -m "Fix typo in README"
git push origin fix/readme-typo

GitHub shows a Compare and pull request button. Base branch is main.

That is a real pull request, opened by you.

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