From 3111f06b7039417845164434801c1e5443b0b2d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Pope Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 16:07:37 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add a CONTRIBUTING file Leave the README section in place, as we link to it from all over the place. --- CONTRIBUTING.markdown | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) create mode 100644 CONTRIBUTING.markdown diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.markdown b/CONTRIBUTING.markdown new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f5a62ca4 --- /dev/null +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +If your [commit message sucks](http://stopwritingramblingcommitmessages.com/), +I'm not going to accept your pull request. I've explained very politely +dozens of times that +[my general guidelines](http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html) +are absolute rules on my own repositories, so I may lack the energy to +explain it to you yet another time. And please, if I ask you to change +something, `git commit --amend`. + +Beyond that, don't be shy about asking before patching. What takes you +hours might take me minutes simply because I have both domain knowledge +and a perverse knowledge of Vim script so vast that many would consider +it a symptom of mental illness. On the flip side, some ideas I'll +reject no matter how good the implementation is. "Send a patch" is an +edge case answer in my book.