1==================== 2 Git Commit Rules 3==================== 4 5This is the first file you should be reading when contributing code via Git. 6We'll assume you're basically familiar with Git, but feel free to post 7your questions on the mailing list. Please have a look at 8http://git-scm.com/ for more detailed information on Git. 9 10PHP is developed through the efforts of a large number of people. 11Collaboration is a Good Thing(tm), and Git lets us do this. Thus, following 12some basic rules with regards to Git usage will:: 13 14 a. Make everybody happier, especially those responsible for maintaining 15 Git itself. 16 17 b. Keep the changes consistently well documented and easily trackable. 18 19 c. Prevent some of those 'Oops' moments. 20 21 d. Increase the general level of good will on planet Earth. 22 23Having said that, here are the organizational rules:: 24 25 1. Respect other people working on the project. 26 27 2. Discuss any significant changes on the list before committing and get 28 confirmation from the release manager for the given branch. 29 30 3. Look at EXTENSIONS file to see who is the primary maintainer of 31 the code you want to contribute to. 32 33 4. If you "strongly disagree" about something another person did, don't 34 start fighting publicly - take it up in private email. 35 36 5. If you don't know how to do something, ask first! 37 38 6. Test your changes before committing them. We mean it. Really. 39 To do so use "make test". 40 41 7. For development use the --enable-maintainer-zts switch to ensure your 42 code handles TSRM correctly and doesn't break for those who need that. 43 44Currently we have the following branches in use:: 45 46 master The active development branch. 47 48 PHP-5.5 Is used to release the PHP 5.5.x series. This is a current 49 stable version and is open for bugfixes only. 50 51 PHP-5.4 Is used to release the PHP 5.4.x series. This is a current 52 stable version and is open for bugfixes only. 53 54 PHP-5.3 This branch is closed. 55 56 PHP-5.2 This branch is closed. 57 58 PHP-5.1 This branch is closed. 59 60 PHP-4.4 This branch is closed. 61 62The next few rules are more of a technical nature:: 63 64 1. All changes should first go to the lowest branch (i.e. 5.4) and then 65 get merged up to all other branches. If a change is not needed for 66 later branches (i.e. fixes for features which where dropped from later 67 branches) an empty merge should be done. 68 69 2. All news updates intended for public viewing, such as new features, 70 bug fixes, improvements, etc., should go into the NEWS file of the 71 *first* to be released version with the given change. In other words 72 any NEWS file change only needs to done in one branch. 73 74 3. Do not commit multiple file and dump all messages in one commit. If you 75 modified several unrelated files, commit each group separately and 76 provide a nice commit message for each one. See example below. 77 78 4. Do write your commit message in such a way that it makes sense even 79 without the corresponding diff. One should be able to look at it, and 80 immediately know what was modified. Definitely include the function name 81 in the message as shown below. 82 83 5. In your commit messages, keep each line shorter than 80 characters. And 84 try to align your lines vertically, if they wrap. It looks bad otherwise. 85 86 6. If you modified a function that is callable from PHP, prepend PHP to 87 the function name as shown below. 88 89 90The format of the commit messages is pretty simple. 91 92<max 79 characters short description>\n 93\n 94<long description, 79 chars per line> 95\n 96 97An Example from the git project (commit 2b34e486bc): 98 99pack-objects: Fix compilation with NO_PTHREDS 100 101It looks like commit 99fb6e04 (pack-objects: convert to use 102parse_options(), 2012-02-01) moved the #ifdef NO_PTHREDS around but 103hasn't noticed that the 'arg' variable no longer is available. 104 105If you fix some bugs, you should note the bug ID numbers in your 106commit message. Bug ID should be prefixed by "#" for easier access to 107bug report when developers are browsing CVS via LXR or Bonsai. 108 109Example:: 110 111 Fixed bug #14016 (pgsql notice handler double free crash bug.) 112 113When you change the NEWS file for a bug fix, then please keep the bugs 114sorted in decreasing order under the fixed version. 115 116You can use OpenGrok (http://lxr.php.net/) and gitweb (http://git.php.net/) 117to look at PHP Git repository in various ways. 118 119 120For further information on the process and further details please refer to 121https://wiki.php.net/vcs/gitworkflow and https://wiki.php.net/vcs/gitfaq 122 123Happy hacking, 124 125PHP Team 126
