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| author | Björn Gustavsson <[email protected]> | 2017-04-26 12:38:22 +0200 |
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| committer | GitHub <[email protected]> | 2017-04-26 12:38:22 +0200 |
| commit | 9ded73921e8a6a5ecf00c27028fcff1bf1961992 (patch) | |
| tree | f1a5540b5f2a6d5b54c56aff7c079ddd3db5d4d1 | |
| parent | 418a06c1fa14d144abb95d6e2030e49d074cf6e6 (diff) | |
| parent | 29f04414ff8c1b36c85fbb6625be9ab2fce182f1 (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #1427 from bjorng/bjorn/contributing
Add a piece of advice against naming branches 'maint' or 'master'
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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 328b9f7859..ca9674d103 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ for more information. You can contribute to Erlang/OTP by opening a Pull Request. +Make sure you create a new branch for your pull request with `git checkout -b new-branch-name`. +Never do your work directly on `maint` or `master`. + ## Fixing a bug * In most cases, pull requests for bug fixes should be based on the `maint` branch. |