# Hello World 👋

> The first repository every developer creates when learning [GitHub](https://github.com) — and the canonical example used throughout GitHub's own documentation.

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## 📖 About

**Hello-World** is a minimal starter repository. It exists to demonstrate the
core building blocks of working on GitHub: creating a repository, editing files,
committing changes, opening branches, and collaborating through pull requests.

If you are reading this while following a GitHub tutorial, you are in the right
place — this project is intentionally tiny so you can focus on the *workflow*
rather than the code.

## ✨ What you'll learn

- How a repository is structured
- How to make and commit a change
- How to create a branch
- How to open and review a pull request
- How Markdown renders a `README`

## 🚀 Getting started

Clone the repository to your machine:

```bash
git clone https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World.git
cd Hello-World
```

Print the classic greeting:

```bash
cat README.md | head -n 1
# => # Hello World 👋
```

## 🌱 Make your first contribution

1. **Fork** this repository (top-right of the page).
2. **Create a branch** for your change:
   ```bash
   git checkout -b my-first-change
   ```
3. **Commit** your edit with a clear message:
   ```bash
   git commit -am "Describe your change"
   ```
4. **Push** the branch and **open a pull request**:
   ```bash
   git push origin my-first-change
   ```
5. Wait for review, iterate on feedback, and celebrate when it merges. 🎉

## 🤝 Contributing

Contributions of every size are welcome — even fixing a single typo is a great
first pull request. Please keep changes focused and describe *what* changed and
*why* in your PR description.

## 📄 License

This project is released under the [MIT License](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).
You are free to use, copy, modify, and distribute it.

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<p align="center"><sub>Happy coding! Every expert was once a beginner. 🐙</sub></p>