# Contributing

**Are you wondering how you can get started?** You can learn how from this *free* series
[How to Contribute to an Open Source Project on GitHub](https://egghead.io/series/how-to-contribute-to-an-open-source-project-on-github).

## Prerequisites

1. A GitHub project in which you have access
2. A text editor or IDE (integrated development environment)
3. Basic knowledge of the command line in a terminal session
4. [`git`](https://git-scm.com/)
5. [`SSH key`](https://help.github.com/articles/connecting-to-github-with-ssh/)

## How to submit a Pull Request (aka PR)

1. Click the _**Fork**_ button in the top right to copy the repo to your own GitHub project.
2. Open a terminal and clone your forked project locally:
```bash
$ git clone git@github.com:your-project-name/chromebrew.git && cd chromebrew
```
3. Create a branch for your PR:
```bash
$ git checkout -b update-cool-package
```
4. Add, edit or delete the file(s) you would like to change and save.
5. Test your changes!  See steps 7 through 11 in the `How to test a pending PR from another contributor` section below.
6. Stage your changes:
```bash
$ git add -A
```
7. Review your changes:
```bash
$ git diff --staged
```
8. Correct your changes and repeat steps 4 through 7, if necessary.
9. Commit your changes:
```bash
$ git commit -m "Add some awesome change to cool package"
```
10. Push your changes:
```bash
$ git push origin update-cool-package
```
11. Visit your project page in the browser: `https://github.com/your-project-name/chromebrew`
12. Click the _**New pull request**_ button next to the _**Branch:**_ selector drop-down.
13. Select your branch name from the _**compare:**_ selector drop-down on the right.
14. Scroll down and review your changes.
15. Click the _**Create pull request**_ button.
16. Add a short description of your change.
17. Click the _**Create pull request**_ button.

## How to test a pending PR from another contributor

1. Open the PR of interest.
2. Next to the green _**Open**_ badge, you should see something similar to:
```
contributor-name wants to merge 1 commit into chromebrew:master from contributor-name:update-cool-package
```
3. On the far right, take note of _**contributor-name:update-cool-package**_.  This is the PR contributor along with the branch they want to merge.
4. Open a terminal, change to your cloned chromebrew directory and execute:
```bash
$ git remote add contributor-name git@github.com:contributor-name/chromebrew.git
```
5. Fetch their branches:
```bash
$ git fetch contributor-name
```
6. Checkout their branch:
```bash
$ git checkout update-cool-package
```
7. If the requested change is a package:
```bash
$ cp packages/cool_package.rb /usr/local/lib/crew/packages/
```
8. Test the new or updated package:
```bash
$ crew upgrade cool_package
```
9. Examine the files to see if everything installed as expected:
```bash
$ crew files cool_package
```
10. Run some tests on executables, if applicable:
```bash
$ cool_package --version
$ cool_package --help
$ cool_package --some-other-option
```
11. To see if this package is a dependency for another package, execute:
```bash
$ grep "depends_on 'cool_package'" packages/*.rb
```
and, just in case:
```bash
$ grep 'depends_on "cool_package"' packages/*.rb
```
If the package is a dependency for another package, test commands of the other package, if possible, to see if they were affected in any way.

12. Visit the PR and add a comment suggesting any changes or mark it RTBC if everything looks good.

## Learn more

- Visit the [wiki](https://github.com/chromebrew/chromebrew/wiki)
