How to make a clean pull request on Github
If you want to contribute to a project and make it better, your help is very welcome. Contributing is also a great way to learn more about social coding on Github, new technologies and and their ecosystems and how to make constructive, helpful bug reports, feature requests and the noblest of all contributions: a good, clean pull request.
Look for a project's contribution instructions. If there are any, follow them.
origin
.upstream
.develop
if it exists, else from master
.origin
.develop
branch if there is one, else go for master
!upstream
to your local repo and delete
your extra branch(es).And last but not least: Always write your commit messages in the present tense. Your commit message should describe what the commit, when applied, does to the code – not what you did to the code.