Update Contributing.md With Improved Git Hygeniene Practices

[kathrynsilvaconway]

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Overview

We need our documentation for working on issues to be as up-to-date as possible and to reflect best practices for Git Hygiene, so all developers can create the same quality of code.

Action Items

• [ ] In our Contribiuting.md, at the end of section 2.7.a,
  • [ ] add the following: IMPORTANT: Before you push your local commits to your repository, sync your fork to the main Hack For LA website repository. git pull upstream will ensure that your local repository is up-to-date with the main site:

git pull upstream

You can also sync your fork directly on GitHub by clicking "Sync Fork" at the right of the screen and then clicking "Update Branch"

• [ ] Add a brief screen capture to demonstrate syncing the fork on GitHub.
• [ ] Make the Following changes to section 2.7.d:
  • [ ] Change section title to read "Working on an issue (4): Pulling from upstream before you push"
  • [ ] Change everything above subsection "i" to the following:

IMPORTANT: Before you push your local commits to your repository, sync your fork to the main Hack For LA website repository. `git pull upstream` will ensure that your local repository is up-to-date with the main site:

```bash
git pull upstream
```
You can also sync your fork directly on GitHub by clicking "Sync Fork" at the right of the screen and then clicking "Update Branch"

• [ ] Add a brief screen capture to demonstrate syncing the fork on GitHub.

Resources/Instructions

Contributing.md

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

@kathrynsilvaconway I updated the overview to reflect the format required We need to do X for Y reason

As a developer, I need our documentation for working on issues to be as up-to-date as possible. For this issue, we will update the Contributing.md file to reflect best practices for Git Hygiene.

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

@kathrynsilvaconway @7kram figured out that if you use four backticks to surround the three backticks, you can get a code block within a code block. Copying the code block above gives us:

IMPORTANT: Before you push your local commits to your repository, sync your fork to the main Hack For LA website repository. git pull upstream will ensure that your local repository is up-to-date with the main site:

git pull upstream

You can also sync your fork directly on GitHub by clicking "Sync Fork" at the right of the screen and then clicking "Update Branch"

Now that we have made this change and others, please re-review the issue

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