commit 56630b88a7dbd9d51b38db2f4b3dba98edd3c7bf (tree)
parent 3f77ad88656ca65ad0f535afed6c00ad8a6b6064
Author: Tim Pope <code@tpope.net>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:00:08 -0400
Add contribution guidelines
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown
@@ -74,6 +74,24 @@ directory. Edit a file from the repository.
Fugitive cares about the current file, not the current working
directory. Edit a file from the repository.
+Contributing
+------------
+
+If your [commit message sucks](http://stopwritingramblingcommitmessages.com/),
+I'm not going to accept your pull request. I've explained very politely
+dozens of times that
+[my general guidelines](http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html)
+are absolute rules on on my own repositories, so I may lack the energy
+to explain it to you yet another time. And please, if I ask you to
+change something, `git commit --amend`.
+
+Beyond that, don't be shy about asking before patching. What takes you
+hours might take me minutes simply because I have both domain knowledge
+and a perverse knowledge of VimScript so vast that many would consider
+it a symptom of mental illness. On the flip side, some ideas I'll
+reject no matter how good the implementation is. "Send a patch" is an
+edge case answer in my book.
+
Self-Promotion
--------------
@@ -82,4 +100,4 @@ Like fugitive.vim? Follow the repository on
[vim.org](http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2975). And if
you're feeling especially charitable, follow [tpope](http://tpo.pe/) on
[Twitter](http://twitter.com/tpope) and
-[Github](http://github.com/tpope).
+[GitHub](http://github.com/tpope).
