From c0a9c60434bc8a94115efe40d97f4348352c831a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Bergmann Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 09:15:27 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add note about properly setting up Git --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index d39b954138a..6ee8268b5f1 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ Please note that this project is released with a [Contributor Code of Conduct](C * Add tests for it. This is important so we don't break it in a future version unintentionally. * Send a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches. +Please make sure that you have [set up your user name and email address](http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-First-Time-Git-Setup) for use with Git. Strings such as `silly nick name ` look really stupid in the commit history of a project. + Pull requests for bug fixes must be based on the current stable branch whereas pull requests for new features must be based on `master`. We are trying to keep backwards compatibility breaks in PHPUnit to an absolute minimum. Please take this into account when proposing changes.