CONTRIBUTING.md

How to Contribute

Raising an issue:

This is an Open Source project and we would be happy to see contributors who report bugs and file feature requests submitting pull requests as well. This project adheres to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code style. Please report issues here Issues - coding-blocks/CBOnlineApp

Branch Policy

Sending pull requests:

Go to the repository on GitHub at https://github.com/coding-blocks/CBOnlineApp.

Click the “Fork” button at the top right.

You’ll now have your copy of the original CBOnlineApp repository in your GitHub account.

Open a terminal/shell.

Type

$ git clone https://github.com/username/CBOnlineApp

where 'username' is your username.

You’ll now have a local copy of your version of the original CBOnlineApp repository.

Change into that project directory (CBOnlineApp):

$ cd CBOnlineApp

Add a connection to the original owner’s repository.

$ git remote add upstream https://github.com/coding-blocks/CBOnlineApp

To check this remote add set up:

$ git remote -v

Make changes to files.

git add and git commit those changes

git push them back to GitHub. These will go to your version of the repository.

Squashing your's changes

Before you make Pull Request, you should squash your commits into one.

Go into the directory for the project and type:

git checkout my_branch git reset --soft HEAD~Number git commit git push --force origin my_branch

where 'Number' is the number of commits to squash and 'my_branch 'is your branch name.

This will squash your commits into one single commit.

Now push them and Create A PR.

Now Create a PR (Pull Request)

Go to your version of the repository on GitHub.

Click the “New pull request” button at the top.

Note that CBOnlineApp’s repository will be on the left and your repository will be on the right.

Click the green button “Create pull request”. Give a succinct and informative title, in the comment field give a short explanation of the changes and click the green button “Create pull request” again.

Pulling others’ changes

Before you make further changes to the repository, you should check that your version is up to date relative to CBOnlineApp’s version.

Go into the directory for the project and type:

$ git checkout development $ git pull upstream development --rebase

This will pull down and merge all of the changes that have been made in the original CBOnlineApp repository.

Now push them back to your Github repository.

$ git push origin development