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Add commit message rules to CONTRIBUTING (#823)
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Added rules about good commit messages to the `CONTRIBUTING.md`
document. The same rules we have been following so far, so nothing
revolutionary. Just to keep the new contributors informed.
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anyone, and even the smallest of fixes is appreciated!

The following is a set of guidelines for contributing to Keep and its packages.
These are mostly guidelines, not rules. Use your best judgment, and feel free to
propose changes to this document in a pull request.
Feel free to propose changes to this document in a pull request.

== Getting started

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https://github.com/keep-network/solium-config-keep[solium-config-keep] and
https://github.com/keep-network/eslint-config-keep[eslint-config-keep] packages.
All other packages have it as a dependency.

== Commit Messages

When composing commit messages, please follow the general guidelines listed in
https://cbea.ms/git-commit/[Chris Beams’s How to Write a Git Commit Message].
Many editors have git modes that will highlight overly long first lines of
commit messages, etc. The GitHub UI itself will warn you if your commit summary
is too long, and will auto-wrap commit messages made through the UI to 72
characters.

The above goes into good commit style. Some additional guidelines do apply,
however:

* The target audience of your commit messages is always "some person 10 years
from now who never got a chance to talk to present you" (that person could be
future you!).
* Commit messages with a summary and no description should be very rare. This
means you should probably break any habit of using `git commit -m`.
* A fundamental principle that informs our use of GitHub: assume GitHub will
someday go away, and ensure git has captured all important information about
the development of the code. Commit messages are the piece of knowledge that
is second most likely to survive tool transitions (the first is the code
itself); as such, they must stand alone. Do not reference tickets or issues
in your commit messages. Summarize any conclusions from the issue or ticket
that inform the commit itself, and capture any additional reasoning or context
in the merge commit.
* Make your commits as atomic as you can manage. This means each commit contains
a single logical unit of work.
* Run a quick `git log --graph --all --oneline --decorate` before pushing.
It’s much easier to fix typos and minor mistakes locally.

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