CONTRIBUTING.md

CONTRIBUTING.md

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+Sign up to the [Open Privacy Gogs instance](https://git.openprivacy.ca/)
+
+Get the code
+
+    clone gogs@git.openprivacy.ca:cwtch.im/cwtch.git
+    
+Make a development branch to do your work
+
+    git checkout -b work-branch-name
+    
+If you are using Goland as an IDE, now would be a good time to enable automatic gofmt on save of files with the File Watches plugin [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33774950/execute-gofmt-on-file-save-in-intellij](StackOverflow)
+
+When you are done, rebase squash any multiple commits you have into one
+
+    git rebase -i master
+    
+Test the code and check it has not quality issues
+
+    ./testing/tests.sh
+    ./testing/quality.sh
+    
+Ideally run the ingegration tests (~5 minutes)
+
+    cd testing
+    go test
+    
+push your branch (-f for *force* in the case you've rebased and squashed)
+
+    git push origin work-branch-name -f
+    
+create a [pull request](https://git.openprivacy.ca/cwtch.im/cwtch/pulls)
+
+If you have fixes, you can ammend them to the current commit rather than a new one with
+
+    git commit --ammend
+    git push -f

README.md

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 More Information: [https://cwtch.im](https://cwtch.im)
 
-![](https://git.openprivacy.ca/avatars/5?s=140)
+Development and Contributing information in [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://git.openprivacy.ca/cwtch.im/cwtch/src/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
+
+![](https://git.openprivacy.ca/avatars/5?s=140)