CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing to ConsoleMe

Reporting issues

Issues can be opened for bugs, feature requests, missing documentation, etc. To create an issue, click here.

Contributing Code and Docs

Before making code changes, make a fork of the ConsoleMe repository.

# Clone your fork, substituting your_username for your GitHub username then go into the repo root
git clone [email protected]:your_username/consoleme.git
cd consoleme

# Create a new branch for your changes
git checkout -b my-branch

Now you can make your changes and save them. Once you've made changes, added/updated tests, and are ready to upload:

# Replace file1 with a list of the files you'd like to commit
git add file1
git commit -m "A short description of your change"
git push -u origin my-branch

You can now create a Pull Request.

Once your PR is merged, it is recommended to do some cleanup:

git checkout master
git pull
git branch -d my-branch  # This would delete the branch locally
git push origin --delete my-branch  # This would delete the remote branch

Keeping your fork up to date

Since your fork is a copy of the repository, you have to keep it in sync with our copy. You can do that by adding our copy as a remote, then pulling the changes from the master branch:

# From the consoleme repository root, check out your master branch
git checkout master
# Add a remote called upstream
git remote add upstream [email protected]:your_username/consoleme.git
# Pull changes from upstream
git pull upstream master
# Push changes to your fork
git push origin master