Configure Git contribution guidelines for github.com
commit0b1bb0c032091930523399cc265c13a70c01aa2d
authorLars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Tue, 13 Jun 2017 08:18:07 +0000 (13 10:18 +0200)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tue, 13 Jun 2017 15:41:47 +0000 (13 08:41 -0700)
treeef17e0da23b311c9cd07846b8602fcefae2e80e5
parent76339527ccf7946751174663f9faa686f3f55335
Configure Git contribution guidelines for github.com

Many open source projects use github.com for their contribution process.
Although we mirror the Git core repository to github.com [1] we do not
use any other github.com service. This is unknown/unexpected to a
number of (potential) contributors and consequently they create Pull
Requests against our mirror with their contributions. These Pull
Requests become stale. This is frustrating to them as they think we
ignore them and it is also unsatisfactory for us as we miss potential
code improvements and/or new contributors.

GitHub contribution guidelines and a GitHub Pull Request template that
is visible to every Pull Request creator can be configured with special
files in a Git repository [2]. Let's make use of this!

[1] https://github.com/git/git
[2] https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request-template-for-your-repository/

Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
.github/CONTRIBUTING.md [new file with mode: 0644]
.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md [new file with mode: 0644]