From bed8e1ba80c73b1d976ec865756b62e66342ce32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Max Wittig <max.wittig95@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 11:38:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] docs(readme): provide commit message guidelines

Fixes #660
---
 README.rst | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index bed7f0eee..393398ef5 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -91,6 +91,9 @@ You can contribute to the project in multiple ways:
 * Add unit and functional tests
 * Everything else you can think of
 
+We prefer commit messages to be formatted using the `conventional-changelog <https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#-commit-message-guidelines>`_.
+This leads to more readable messages that are easy to follow when looking through the project history.
+
 Provide your patches as github pull requests. Thanks!
 
 Running unit tests