system-design-primer/CONTRIBUTING.md

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Contributing
============
Contributions are welcome!
**Please carefully read this page to make the code review process go as smoothly as possible and to maximize the likelihood of your contribution being merged.**
## Bug Reports
For bug reports or requests [submit an issue](https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer/issues).
## Pull Requests
The preferred way to contribute is to fork the
[main repository](https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer) on GitHub.
1. Fork the [main repository](https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer). Click on the 'Fork' button near the top of the page. This creates a copy of the code under your account on the GitHub server.
2. Clone this copy to your local disk:
$ git clone git@github.com:YourLogin/system-design-primer.git
$ cd system-design-primer
3. Create a branch to hold your changes and start making changes. Don't work in the `master` branch!
$ git checkout -b my-feature
4. Work on this copy on your computer using Git to do the version control. When you're done editing, run the following to record your changes in Git:
$ git add modified_files
$ git commit
5. Push your changes to GitHub with:
$ git push -u origin my-feature
6. Finally, go to the web page of your fork of the `system-design-primer` repo and click 'Pull Request' to send your changes for review.
### GitHub Pull Requests Docs
If you are not familiar with pull requests, review the [pull request docs](https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests/).