AUCOHL_DFFRAM/Contributing.md

Contributing

Contributions are welcome and encouraged!

The process: Please fork the repository and submit a pull request. Ensure that the pull request passes the CI script.

Ensure that your fork is rebased. This is important. Pull requests with merge conflicts will very likely be rejected on principle.

How to rebase

Ensure that your local git clone's origin remote is your own fork:

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/<you>/DFFRAM

Ensure that your local git clone also has an upstream remote. You can add it via the command:

git remote get-url upstream
> fatal: No such remote 'upstream'
git remote add upstream https://github.com/AUCOHL/DFFRAM`

You can start a rebase by typing:

git fetch upstream
git rebase upstream/main

If there are no conflicts, you will not get any error messages. However, in the event you do: git diff --name-only --diff-filter=U will list the conflicts. Resolve all of your conflicts properly, then invoke the following:

git add .
git rebase --continue

Repeat the previous step until you get no error messages. Then finally, you need to rewrite your fork's history as follows:

git push -fu origin main

Then, create your pull request. If all went well, the CI should pass.

Note to maintainers

If the number of commits is low, rebase and merge, but if it is high (5 commits or more), squash and merge.

Squash and merge makes for a cleaner commit history, but will require pretty much everyone to rebase any work they've had off the main branch with a great degree more difficulty.