#Contributing to textAngular
We'd love for you to contribute to our source code and to make textAngular even better than it is today! Here are the guidelines we'd like you to follow:
If you find a bug in the source code or a mistake in the documentation, you can help us by submitting an issue to our [GitHub Repository][github]. Even better you can submit a Pull Request with a fix.
You can request a new feature by submitting an issue to our [GitHub Repository][github]. If you would like to implement a new feature then consider what kind of change it is:
Before you submit your issue search the archive, maybe your question was already answered.
If your issue appears to be a bug, and hasn't been reported, open a new issue. Help us to maximize the effort we can spend fixing issues and adding new features, by not reporting duplicate issues. Providing the following information will increase the chances of your issue being dealt with quickly:
Here is a great example of a well defined issue: https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/5069
If you get help, help others. Good karma rulez!
Before you submit your pull request consider the following guidelines:
Make your changes in a new git branch
git checkout -b my-fix-branch master
Create your patch, including appropriate test cases.
Follow our Coding Rules.
Run the full Angular test suite, as described in the [developer documentation][dev-doc], and ensure that all tests pass.
Commit your changes using a descriptive commit message that follows our
commit message conventions and passes our commit message presubmit hook
validate-commit-msg.js
. Adherence to the commit message conventions
is required because release notes are automatically generated from these messages.
git commit -a
Note: the optional commit -a
command line option will automatically "add" and "rm" edited files.
Build your changes locally to ensure all the tests pass
grunt test
Push your branch to GitHub:
git push origin my-fix-branch
In GitHub, send a pull request to angular:master
.
If we suggest changes then
git rebase master -i
git push -f
That's it! Thank you for your contribution!
After your pull request is merged, you can safely delete your branch and pull the changes from the main (upstream) repository:
Delete the remote branch on GitHub either through the GitHub web UI or your local shell as follows:
git push origin --delete my-fix-branch
Check out the master branch:
git checkout master -f
Delete the local branch:
git branch -D my-fix-branch
Update your master with the latest upstream version:
git pull --ff upstream master
To ensure consistency throughout the source code, keep these rules in mind as you are working:
We have very precise rules over how our git commit messages can be formatted. This leads to more readable messages that are easy to follow when looking through the project history.
Each commit message consists of a header, a body and a footer. The header has a special format that includes a type, a scope and a subject:
<type>(<scope>): <subject>
<BLANK LINE>
<body>
<BLANK LINE>
<footer>
Any line of the commit message cannot be longer 100 characters! This allows the message to be easier to read on github as well as in various git tools.
Must be one of the following:
The scope could be anything specifying place of the commit change. For example $location
,
$browser
, $compile
, $rootScope
, ngHref
, ngClick
, ngView
, etc...
The subject contains succinct description of the change:
###Body Just as in the subject, use the imperative, present tense: "change" not "changed" nor "changes" The body should include the motivation for the change and contrast this with previous behavior.
###Footer The footer should contain any information about Breaking Changes and is also the place to reference GitHub issues that this commit Closes.
A detailed explanation can be found in this [document][commit-message-format].