hosts/contributing.md

Contributing Guide

• Contributing to Hosts is easy. This document shows you how to get started

General

• The Codebase Structure has detailed information about how the various folders and files in this project are structured.

Submitting changes

• Fork the repo
  • https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/fork
• Check out a new branch based and name it to what you intend to do:
  • Example:

    $ git checkout -b BRANCH_NAME
    

    If you get an error, you may need to fetch first, by using

    $ git remote update && git fetch
    

  • Use one branch per fix / feature
• Commit your changes
  • Please provide a git message that explains what you've done
  • Please make sure your commits follow the conventions
  • Commit to the forked repository
  • Example:

    $ git commit -am 'Add some fooBar'
    

• Push to the branch
  • Example:

    $ git push origin BRANCH_NAME
    

• Make a pull request
  • Make sure you send the PR to the BRANCH_NAME branch

If you follow these instructions, your Pull Request will land safely!