# Contributing Guidelines
-Patches and pull-requests:
+## Patches and Pull requests:
If you want to contribute a change to LuCI, please either send a patch using git send-email
-or open a pull request against the openwrt/luci repository.
+or open a "pull request" against the openwrt/luci repository.
Regardless of whether you send a patch or open a pull request, please try to follow these rules:
-* Have a useful subject prefixed with the component name
- (E.g.: "modules/admin-full: fix wifi channel selection on multiple STA networks")
+* Have a useful subject prefixed with the component name
+ (E.g.: "luci-mod-admin-full: fix wifi channel selection on multiple STA networks")
* Shortly explain the changes made and - if applicable - the reasoning behind them
-* Include Signed-off-by in the comment
+* Commit message of each commit should include a Signed-off-by line
(See <https://dev.openwrt.org/wiki/SubmittingPatches#a10.Signyourwork>)
In case you like to send patches by mail, please use the [LuCI mailinglist](https://lists.subsignal.org/mailman/listinfo/luci)
If you send via the OpenWrt list, include a "[luci]" tag in your subject line.
For general information on patch submission, follow the [OpenWrt patch submission guideline](https://dev.openwrt.org/wiki/SubmittingPatches).
+## Advice on pull requests:
-If you have commit access:
+Pull requests are the easiest way to contribute changes to git repos at Github. They are the preferred contribution method, as they offer a nice way for commenting and amending the proposed changes.
+
+* You need a local "fork" of the Github repo.
+* Use a "feature branch" for your changes. That separates the changes in the pull request from your other changes and makes it easy to edit/amend commits in the pull request. Workflow using "feature_x" as the example:
+ - Update your local git fork to the tip (of the master, usually)
+ - Create the feature branch with `git checkout -b feature_x`
+ - Edit changes and commit them locally
+ - Push them to your Github fork by `git push -u origin feature_x`. That creates the "feature_x" branch at your Github fork and sets it as the remote of this branch
+ - When you now visit Github, you should see a proposal to create a pull request
+
+* If you later need to add new commits to the pull request, you can simply commit the changes to the local branch and then use `git push` to automatically update the pull request.
+
+* If you need to change something in the existing pull request (e.g. to add a missing signed-off-by line to the commit message), you can use `git push -f` to overwrite the original commits. That is easy and safe when using a feature branch. Example workflow:
+ - Checkout the feature branch by `git checkout feature_x`
+ - Edit changes and commit them locally. If you are just updating the commit message in the last commit, you can use `git commit --amend` to do that
+ - If you added several new commits or made other changes that require cleaning up, you can use `git rebase -i HEAD~X` (X = number of commits to edit) to possibly squash some commits
+ - Push the changed commits to Github with `git push -f` to overwrite the original commits in the "feature_x" branch with the new ones. The pull request gets automatically updated
+
+## If you have commit access:
* Do NOT use git push --force.
* Use Pull Requests if you are unsure and to suggest changes to other developers.
-Gaining commit access:
+## Gaining commit access:
* Commit access will be granted to responsible contributors who have made
useful pull requests and / or feedback or patches to this repository or
OpenWrt in general. Please include your request for commit access in your
next pull request or ticket.
-Release Branches:
+## Release Branches:
-* Branches named "luci-X.Y" (e.g. luci-0.12) are release branches.
+* Branches named "for-XX.YY" or "luci-X.Y" (e.g. "for-15.05") are release branches.
* These branches are built with the respective OpenWrt release and are created
during the release stabilisation phase.
* Please ONLY cherry-pick or commit security and bug-fixes to these branches.
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