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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 7c4291318e..a392ade0c2 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -1,16 +1,16 @@ # Contributing Guidelines -Patches and pull-requests: +## Patches and Pull requests: If you want to contribute a change to LuCI, please either send a patch using git send-email -or open a pull request against the openwrt/luci repository. +or open a "pull request" against the openwrt/luci repository. Regardless of whether you send a patch or open a pull request, please try to follow these rules: -* Have a useful subject prefixed with the component name - (E.g.: "modules/admin-full: fix wifi channel selection on multiple STA networks") +* Have a useful subject prefixed with the component name + (E.g.: "luci-mod-admin-full: fix wifi channel selection on multiple STA networks") * Shortly explain the changes made and - if applicable - the reasoning behind them -* Include Signed-off-by in the comment +* Include Signed-off-by in the comment (See <https://dev.openwrt.org/wiki/SubmittingPatches#a10.Signyourwork>) In case you like to send patches by mail, please use the [LuCI mailinglist](https://lists.subsignal.org/mailman/listinfo/luci) @@ -19,22 +19,41 @@ or the [OpenWrt Development List](https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/list If you send via the OpenWrt list, include a "[luci]" tag in your subject line. For general information on patch submission, follow the [OpenWrt patch submission guideline](https://dev.openwrt.org/wiki/SubmittingPatches). +## Advice on pull requests: -If you have commit access: +Pull requests are the easiest way to contribute changes to git repos at Github. They are the preferred contribution method, as they offer a nice way for commenting and amending the proposed changes. + +* You need a local "fork" of the Github repo. +* Use a "feature branch" for your changes. That separates the changes in the pull request from your other changes and makes it easy to edit/amend commits in the pull request. Workflow using "feature_x" as the example: + - Update your local git fork to the tip (of the master, usually) + - Create the feature branch with `git checkout -b feature_x` + - Edit changes and commit them locally + - Push them to your Github fork by `git push -u origin feature_x`. That creates the "feature_x" branch at your Github fork and sets it as the remote of this branch + - When you now visit Github, you should see a proposal to create a pull request + +* If you later need to add new commits to the pull request, you can simply commit the changes to the local branch and then use `git push` to automatically update the pull request. + +* If you need to change something in the existing pull request (e.g. to add a missing signed-off-by line to the commit message), you can use `git push -f` to overwrite the original commits. That is easy and safe when using a feature branch. Example workflow: + - Checkout the feature branch by `git checkout feature_x` + - Edit changes and commit them locally. If you are just updating the commit message in the last commit, you can use `git commit --amend` to do that + - If you added several new commits or made other changes that require cleaning up, you can use `git rebase -i HEAD~X` (X = number of commits to edit) to possibly squash some commits + - Push the changed commits to Github with `git push -f` to overwrite the original commits in the "feature_x" branch with the new ones. The pull request gets automatically updated + +## If you have commit access: * Do NOT use git push --force. * Use Pull Requests if you are unsure and to suggest changes to other developers. -Gaining commit access: +## Gaining commit access: * Commit access will be granted to responsible contributors who have made useful pull requests and / or feedback or patches to this repository or OpenWrt in general. Please include your request for commit access in your next pull request or ticket. -Release Branches: +## Release Branches: -* Branches named "luci-X.Y" (e.g. luci-0.12) are release branches. +* Branches named "for-XX.YY" or "luci-X.Y" (e.g. "for-15.05") are release branches. * These branches are built with the respective OpenWrt release and are created during the release stabilisation phase. * Please ONLY cherry-pick or commit security and bug-fixes to these branches. |