Thank you for contributing to pmidcite! ✨.
Read the Code of Conduct to keep our community approachable and respectable.
In this guide you will get an overview of the contribution workflow from opening an issue, creating a PR, reviewing, and merging the PR.
To get an overview of the project, read the README. Here are some resources to help you get started with open source contributions:
- Finding ways to contribute to open source on GitHub
- Set up Git
- GitHub flow
- Collaborating with pull requests
To navigate our codebase with confidence, see the introduction to working in the docs repository 🎊. For more information on how we write our markdown files, see the GitHub Markdown reference.
Check to see what types of contributions we accept before making changes. Some of them don't even require writing a single line of code ✨.
If you spot a problem with the docs, search if an issue already exists. If a related issue doesn't exist, you can open a new issue using a relevant issue form.
Scan through our existing issues to find one that interests you. You can narrow down the search using labels
as filters. See Labels for more information. As a general rule, we don’t assign issues to anyone. If you find an issue to work on, you are welcome to open a PR with a fix.
Click Make a contribution at the bottom of any docs page to make small changes such as a typo, sentence fix, or a broken link. This takes you to the .md
file where you can make your changes and create a pull request for a review.
For more information about using a codespace for working on GitHub documentation, see "Working in a codespace."
- Fork the repository.
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Using GitHub Desktop:
- Getting started with GitHub Desktop will guide you through setting up Desktop.
- Once Desktop is set up, you can use it to fork the repo!
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Using the command line:
- Fork the repo so that you can make your changes without affecting the original project until you're ready to merge them.
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Install or update to Node.js, at the version specified in
.node-version
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Create a working branch and start with your changes!
Commit the changes once you are happy with them. Don't forget to self-review to speed up the review process:zap:.
When you're finished with the changes, create a pull request, also known as a PR.
- Fill the "Ready for review" template so that we can review your PR. This template helps reviewers understand your changes as well as the purpose of your pull request.
- Don't forget to link PR to issue if you are solving one.
- Enable the checkbox to allow maintainer edits so the branch can be updated for a merge. Once you submit your PR, a Docs team member will review your proposal. We may ask questions or request additional information.
- We may ask for changes to be made before a PR can be merged, either using suggested changes or pull request comments. You can apply suggested changes directly through the UI. You can make any other changes in your fork, then commit them to your branch.
- As you update your PR and apply changes, mark each conversation as resolved.
- If you run into any merge issues, checkout this git tutorial to help you resolve merge conflicts and other issues.
Congratulations 🎉🎉 Thank you for your good work ✨.
Once your PR is merged, your contributions will be publicly visible at https://github.com/dvklopfenstein/pmidcite.
Now that you are part of the GitHub docs community, see how else you can contribute to the docs.
This site can be developed on Windows, however a few potential gotchas need to be kept in mind:
- Regular Expressions: Windows uses
\r\n
for line endings, while Unix-based systems use\n
. Therefore, when working on Regular Expressions, use\r?\n
instead of\n
in order to support both environments. The Node.jsos.EOL
property can be used to get an OS-specific end-of-line marker. - Paths: Windows systems use
\
for the path separator, which would be returned bypath.join
and others. You could usepath.posix
,path.posix.join
etc and the slash module, if you need forward slashes - like for constructing URLs - or ensure your code works with either. - Bash: Not every Windows developer has a terminal that fully supports Bash, so it's generally preferred to write scripts in JavaScript instead of Bash.
- Filename too long error: There is a 260 character limit for a filename when Git is compiled with
msys
. While the suggestions below are not guaranteed to work and could cause other issues, a few workarounds include:- Update Git configuration:
git config --system core.longpaths true
- Consider using a different Git client on Windows
- Update Git configuration: