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Expand Up @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ General guidelines for pull requests (PRs):
do.
* Each pull request should consist of a **small** and logical collection of changes.
* Larger changes should be broken down into smaller components and integrated
separately.
separately. For example, break the wrapping of aliases into multiple pull requests.
* Bug fixes should be submitted in separate PRs.
* Use underscores for all Python (*.py) files as per [PEP8](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/),
not hyphens. Directory names should also use underscores instead of hyphens.
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Even better, you can just write `/format` in the first line of any comment in a
Pull Request to lint the code automatically.

When wrapping a new alias, use an underscore to separate words bridged by vowels
(aeiou), such as `no_skip` and `z_only`. Do not use an underscore to separate
words bridged only by consonants, such as `distcalc`, and `crossprofile`. This
convention is not applied by the code checking tools, but the PyGMT maintainers
will comment on any pull requests as needed.

We also use [flake8](http://flake8.pycqa.org/en/latest/) and
[pylint](https://www.pylint.org/) to check the quality of the code and quickly catch
common errors.
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