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Hello World 👋
The first repository every developer creates when learning GitHub — and the canonical example used throughout GitHub's own documentation.
📖 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:
git clone https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World.git
cd Hello-World
Print the classic greeting:
cat README.md | head -n 1
# => # Hello World 👋
🌱 Make your first contribution
- Fork this repository (top-right of the page).
- Create a branch for your change:
git checkout -b my-first-change - Commit your edit with a clear message:
git commit -am "Describe your change" - Push the branch and open a pull request:
git push origin my-first-change - 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. You are free to use, copy, modify, and distribute it.
Happy coding! Every expert was once a beginner. 🐙