--- title: "Contributing to dbatools & dbareports using GitHub Desktop" url: "https://dbatools.io/github-desktop-contributing/" tags: ["community"] last_updated: "2025-10-30" --- # Contributing to dbatools & dbareports using GitHub Desktop Recently, I presented to the [Philadelphia PowerShell User Group](https://phillyposh.org/) about Contributing to Open Source PowerShell projects using GitHub Desktop. I chose this topic because a number of people have asked for step-by-step instructions on how to work with GitHub. I love the command line, but with Git? I think it's important to get the concepts down first and the [Desktop version](https://desktop.github.com/) makes that a lot easier to contribute to projects like dbatools, dbareports and even [PowerShell](https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell) itself. In the presentation, I pretty much follow along with the tutorial on our wiki called **Your First Pull Request**. But! I also included some information about working with PowerShell, PowerShell modules and PowerShell-centric GitHub repositories that was not in the tutorial, so there's still some good information to gain even if you already know how to make a Pull Request. So if you've wanted to get involved in the project but were a bit hesitant because you aren't comfortable with git, check out this informative and fun video and Get-Contributing ;)