kakoune/CONTRIBUTING
Neal Fultz 0b7b4d6058
Adding allow-empty command to contributing
Many people will not know about the `allow-empty` flag, and will instead 
lose time googling the "nothing to commit, working tree clean" error message.
2019-10-16 09:24:17 -07:00

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The preferred way to contribute would be through GitHub pull requests,
as an alternative patches can be discussed on the IRC channel.
When contributing your first changes, please include an empty commit for
copyright waiver using the following message (replace 'John Doe' with
your name or nickname):
John Doe Copyright Waiver
I dedicate any and all copyright interest in this software to the
public domain. I make this dedication for the benefit of the public at
large and to the detriment of my heirs and successors. I intend this
dedication to be an overt act of relinquishment in perpetuity of all
present and future rights to this software under copyright law.
The command to create an empty commit from the command line is
git commit --allow-empty