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Guidelines for Contributing
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Contributions from the community are essential in keeping Hibernate (any Open Source
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project really) strong and successful. While we try to keep requirements for
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contributing to a minimum, there are a few guidelines we ask that you mind.
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## Getting Started
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If you are just getting started with Git, GitHub and/or contributing to Hibernate via
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GitHub there are a few pre-requisite steps.
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* Make sure you have a [Hibernate Jira account](https://hibernate.onjira.com)
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* Make sure you have a [GitHub account](https://github.com/signup/free)
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* [Fork](http://help.github.com/fork-a-repo) the Hibernate repository. As discussed in
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the linked page, this also includes:
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* [Set](https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git) up your local git install
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* Clone your fork
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## Create the working (topic) branch
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Create a "topic" branch on which you will work. The convention is to name the branch
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using the JIRA issue key. If there is not already a Jira issue covering the work you
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want to do, create one. Assuming you will be working from the master branch and working
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on the Jira HHH-123 : `git checkout -b HHH-123 master`
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## Code
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Do yo thing!
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## Commit
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* Make commits of logical units.
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* Be sure to use the JIRA issue key in the commit message. This is how Jira will pick
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up the related commits and display them on the Jira issue.
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* Make sure you have added the necessary tests for your changes.
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* Run _all_ the tests to assure nothing else was accidentally broken.
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_Prior to commiting, if you want to pull in the latest upstream changes (highly
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appreciated btw), please use rebasing rather than merging. Merging creates
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"merge commits" that really muck up the project timeline._
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## Submit
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* Sign the [Contributor License Agreement](https://cla.jboss.org/index.seam).
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* Push your changes to a topic branch in your fork of the repository.
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* Initiate a [pull request](http://help.github.com/send-pull-requests/)
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* Update the Jira issue, adding a comment inclusing a link to the created pull request
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