From a14500ad2dc9986cd919d64ecab0328f7427850e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: anyreso Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 15:46:14 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?=F0=9F=93=9D=20update=20CONTRIBUTING.md?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 5a879f2..dfa02c9 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -32,12 +32,10 @@ If you want to contribute changes without write access to the repository, you ca 2. Once you have a fork, clone it to your local machine. 3. Then, you can make changes just like you would if you were a member of the project. 4. After you've made your changes, you commit them locally and push these back to your fork on gitlab. -5. Finally, you can [create a merge request](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/creating_merge_requests.html#when-you-work-in-a-fork) from your fork's branch to upstream's branch. +5. Finally, you can [create a merge request](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/creating_merge_requests.html#when-you-work-in-a-fork) from your fork's branch to upstream's branch which will notify project maintainers that you've made changes and allow them to review your code and potentially merge it into the main project. > We encourage you to [allow commits from upstream members](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/allow_collaboration.html#allow-commits-from-upstream-members) so that they can [push to the fork as the upstream member](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/allow_collaboration.html#push-to-the-fork-as-the-upstream-member) in order for you to reach out for help. -This notifies the project maintainers that you've made changes and allows them to review your code and potentially merge it into the main project. - When your branch is merged, you may want to [update your fork](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/forking_workflow.html#update-your-fork) to be synced with upstream. ## Repository membership