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Maintenance Guide

This document provides a step-by-step guide on how to maintain documentation using GitHub's version control system. By following these steps, you can easily update and contribute to documentation while ensuring a streamlined collaboration process.

Introduction​

Maintaining documentation is essential for keeping project information accurate and up-to-date. Using GitHub's collaborative features, you can easily contribute to documentation by suggesting changes and creating pull requests. This guide outlines the process for editing and updating documentation hosted on GitHub.

Maintaining Documentation​

Documentation is maintained through GitHub, a popular platform for version control and collaborative development. By following these steps, you can efficiently contribute to the improvement of documentation:

Step-by-Step Guide​

1. Accessing the Documentation​

  • Navigate to the documentation page on GitHub.
  • Scroll to the bottom of the page and locate the "Edit" button. Click on it.

2. Editing the Documentation​

  • You will be redirected to the GitHub repository where the documentation is stored.
  • Click the "Edit" button (depicted as a pencil icon) on the top-right corner of the document.

3. Committing Changes​

  • Make the necessary updates to the documentation directly in the GitHub text editor.
  • Describe your changes in the "Commit changes" section, providing a brief and informative message.

4. Creating a Pull Request​

  • After committing your changes, scroll down to the "Propose changes" section.
  • Select the option to "Create a new branch for this commit and start a pull request."
  • Provide a meaningful title and description for your pull request.
  • Click the "Propose changes" button to save your pull request.

Conclusion​

Maintaining documentation is a collaborative process made efficient through GitHub's version control system. By following this guide, you can easily contribute to and update documentation, ensuring that project information remains accurate and accessible to all collaborators.

Remember that clear and concise commit messages and pull request descriptions contribute to effective collaboration and documentation management.