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Hi everybody,

I wanted to start working on <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/6620|this> issue, but having a hard time understanding how development works, probably because of the fact that I’ve never done Go before and I’m a complete noob (TS/JS is my main language).

I’ve managed to fork the project and install dependencies, I can even build using the `make` command (although some errors do pop up when tests are run)…

But what I don’t understand is … once I make the change in the CLI code, how can I actually see my changes?

For example, let’s say I wanted to add a simple `--path` parameter to the CLI’s `watch` command, is there a way for me to run the CLI and see it in action immediately, once I’ve done the code change?

Sorry for the noob questions, and I’m sorry if I missed a piece of info somewhere in your contributions guide. :slightly_smiling_face:

It’s not that I’m asking a step-by-step solution / answer. If there’s a URL that you might find useful / that could get me up to speed faster, I’d appreciate that too. :slightly_smiling_face:

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BTW, in case you were wondering…. some of the errors that pop up once I run `make`  :arrow_down:

Hey! Would you be up for doing a call to talk through this? Might be faster to talk than type.

Those specific errors I think are related to automation API, you’ll have to set a test org to run the tests.

But that’s probably not relevant for what you’re doing.

yeah, that would be awesome :slightly_smiling_face:

any time is good for me, but if you want, we can schedule something

I have meetings for the next couple of hours but have some time after. I’ll send you an invite and we can adjust as needed.