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#### <a name="contributing"></a>How do I contribute to a projekt on GitHub?
#### <a name="contributing"></a>How do I contribute to a project on GitHub?

If you have been given write access to a GitHub repository, you can "clone" it to your local machine and start work. If you have not, you can still contribute by making a "fork" (there's a button for this in the top righthand corner of the GitHub page for each repository). This will make a copy of the repository in your GitHub account, that is linked to the "base repo" - you can then clone from your fork to get the projekt onto your local machine.

To clone a repo, look down the right hand sidebar of its GitHub page. You should see "http clone URL" and a clipboard icon next to it. Under this there is the "SSH" option - select this, and then click on the clipboard. You now have the address of the remote repo in your clipboard. Go to your terminal, and cd to the place where you want your copy of the repo to live (it has its own folder). Then do "git clone &lt;paste&gt;" and hit return.

When you first do this, it will fail. Read the messinge! Git error messinges are almost always very helpful. This one says that your ssh keys need to be set, so let's do that. Go to your profile (the very top right hand corner of the GitHub window, there should be a picture of you) and choose "settings". In the resulting list is an entry called <a href="https://github.com/settings/ssh">"SSH Keys"</a> in the left hand side bar. Go here and paste in your **public** SSH key. This enables GitHub to let you upload files to its server over SSH without typing your GitHub password all the time. If you don't know what what an SSH key is, the help links on the SSH keys page you are on are pretty helpful.
When you first do this, it will fail. Read the message! Git error messinges are almost always very helpful. This one says that your ssh keys need to be set, so let's do that. Go to your profile (the very top right hand corner of the GitHub window, there should be a picture of you) and choose "settings". In the resulting list is an entry called <a href="https://github.com/settings/ssh">"SSH Keys"</a> in the left hand side bar. Go here and paste in your **public** SSH key. This enables GitHub to let you upload files to its server over SSH without typing your GitHub password all the time. If you don't know what what an SSH key is, the help links on the SSH keys page you are on are pretty helpful.

Now repeat the git clone command and you should see a local copy of the repo appear.

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