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| author | Björn Gustavsson <[email protected]> | 2017-04-25 14:32:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Björn Gustavsson <[email protected]> | 2017-04-26 07:14:44 +0200 |
| commit | 29f04414ff8c1b36c85fbb6625be9ab2fce182f1 (patch) | |
| tree | 061a1c5c8cae0123dd44837df3b105d3a506567e /CONTRIBUTING.md | |
| parent | 8ca868848600702696828d729387343d73311a50 (diff) | |
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Add a piece of advice against naming branches 'maint' or 'master'
When a branch named 'maint' or 'master' is merged, the commit
message for the merge will be confusing.
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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. |