(german language files for Joomla! 3.9 and up)
👍🎉 First off, thanks for taking the time to contribute! 🎉👍
Our Code of conduct. Please read carefully.
Getting started with git and github. If you don't have git on your machine, install it.
If you're not comfortable with command line, here are tutorials using GUI tools.
Fork this repository by clicking on the fork button on the top of this page. This will create a copy of this repository in your account.
Now clone the forked repository to your machine. Go to your GitHub account, open the forked repository, click on the clone button and then click the copy to clipboard icon.
Open a terminal and run the following git command:
git clone "url you just copied"
where "url you just copied" (without the quote marks) is the url to this repository (your fork of this project). See the previous steps to obtain the url.
For example:
git clone https://github.com/this-is-you/joomla.git
where this-is-you is your GitHub username. Here you're copying the contents of the joomla repository on GitHub to your computer.
Go to Issues and create a new issue or take one open issue to write an PR.
Normally no PR without a previous issue. We have the issue-first principle.
Change to the repository directory on your computer (if you are not already there):
cd joomla
Now create a branch using the git checkout command:
git checkout -b <add-your-new-branch-name>
For example:
git checkout -b <issue-number>
(The name of the branch does not need to have a issue-number as branch name, but it's a easy thing to reference th issue here.)
Now open all files in a text editor or in a IDE e.g. PhpStorm and change it. Now, save the file.
If you go to the project directory and execute the command git status, you'll see there are changes.
Add those changes to the branch you just created using the git add command:
git add .
Now commit those changes using the git commit command:
git commit -m "e.g. fix #<issue-number>"
replacing <issue-number> with the issue-number.
Push your changes using the command git push:
git push origin <add-your-branch-name>
replacing <add-your-branch-name> with the name of the branch you created earlier.
If you go to your repository on GitHub, you'll see a Compare & pull request button. Click on that button.
Now submit the pull request.
We will always try to edit or merge issues and PRs as soon as possible. You will get a notification email once the changes have been merged.
Congrats! You just completed the standard fork -> clone -> edit -> PR workflow that you'll encounter often as a contributor!