Unfortunately we all can't work on cmder every day of the year, so I have decided to write some guidelines for contributing.
If you follow them your contribution will likely be pulled in quicker.
- Fork the repository on GitHub (It's that easy)
- Create a feature branch based on the development branch.
- Make changes in your separate branch.
- Check for unnecessary whitespace with
git diff --checkbefore committing. - Make sure your commit messages are easy to understand
- Squash your 'Correcting mistakes' commits if you have a lot of them. (See the 'Squashing Commits' link below)
- Make sure your changes won't affect new users or user without a customised system, try out your changes on a fresh Windows VM to see if it would affect a new user's experience.
- Sometimes a change that helps you with your cmder experience and tools doesn't always mean other people may need/want it.
- If the documentation is about a currently available feature in cmder or correcting already created documentation, you can safely make your changes on the master branch and pull request them onto master.
- Push your changes to the branch in your fork of the repository.
- Submit a pull request to the develop branch of the cmder repository (unless it's a change in documentation [see above]).
- Make sure you explicitly say to not complete the pull request if you are still making changes.