mc/CONTRIBUTING.md

Setup your mc Github Repository

Fork mc upstream source repository to your own personal repository.

$ git clone https://github.com/$USER_ID/mc
$ cd mc
$ make
$ mc --help

Developer Guidelines

mc welcomes your contribution. To make the process as seamless as possible, we ask for the following:

• Go ahead and fork the project and make your changes. We encourage pull requests to discuss code changes.

  • Fork it
  • Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  • Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  • Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  • Create new Pull Request

• If you have additional dependencies for mc, mc manages its depedencies using godep

  • Run go get foo/bar
  • Edit your code to import foo/bar
  • Run make save from top-level directory (or godep restore && godep save ./...).

• When you're ready to create a pull request, be sure to:

  • Have test cases for the new code. If you have questions about how to do it, please ask in your pull request.
  • Run go fmt
  • Squash your commits into a single commit. git rebase -i. It's okay to force update your pull request.
  • Make sure go test -race ./... and go build completes.

• Read Effective Go article from Golang project

  • mc project is strictly conformant with Golang style
  • if you happen to observe offending code, please feel free to send a pull request