From 505795d6c70b32408738871e8ccef377a1c0f459 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Phillip Webb Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:41:24 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update CONTRIBUTING with commit message tips --- CONTRIBUTING.adoc | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.adoc b/CONTRIBUTING.adoc index 52c59a7bd75..3e6073cb099 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.adoc +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.adoc @@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ added after the original pull request but before a merge. * A few unit tests would help a lot as well -- someone has to do it. * If no-one else is using your branch, please rebase it against the current master (or other target branch in the main project). +* When writing a commit message please follow http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html[these conventions], + if you are fixing an existing issue please add `Fixes gh-XXXX` at the end of the commit + message (where XXXX is the issue number). == Working with the code If you don't have an IDE preference we would recommend that you use