dragonfly/CONTRIBUTING.md

# Contributing to Dragonfly DB

Thank you for your interest in Dragonfly DB.

Feel free to browse our [Discussions](https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly/discussions) and [Issues](https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly/issues)


## Build from source

See [building from source](./docs/build-from-source.md)

Please note that in order to build development/debug version,
it's better to alter the configure and build steps above with:

```sh
./helio/blaze.sh   # without '-release' flag. Creates build-dbg subfolder
cd build-dbg && ninja dragonfly
```


## Before you make your changes

```sh
cd dragonfly   # project root

# IMPORTANT! Enable our pre-commit message hooks
# This will ensure your commits match our formatting requirements
pre-commit install --hook-type commit-msg
```

This step must be done on each machine you wish to develop and contribute from to activate the `commit-msg` hook client-side.

Once you have done these things, we look forward to adding your contributions and improvements to the Dragonfly DB project.


## Unit testing
```
# Build specific test
cd build-dbg && ninja [test_name]
# e.g cd build-dbg && ninja generic_family_test

# Run
./[test_name]
# e.g ./generic_family_test
```

## Signoff Commits
All community submissions must include a signoff.

```bash
git commit -s -m '...'
```

## Squash Commits
Please squash all commits for a change into a single commit (this can be done using "git rebase -i"). Do your best to have a well-formed commit message for the change.

## Use Conventional Commits
This repo uses [Conventional Commmits](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/)


The Conventional Commits specification is a lightweight convention on top of commit messages.
It provides an easy set of rules for creating an explicit commit history;
which makes it easier to write automated tools on top of.
This convention dovetails with [SemVer](http://semver.org),
by describing the features, fixes, and breaking changes made in commit messages.

The commit message should be structured as follows:

---

```
<type>[optional scope]: <description>

[optional body]

[optional footer(s)]
```
---

This repo uses automated tools to standardize the formatting of code, text files and commits.
 - [Pre-commit hooks](#pre-commit-hooks) validate and automatically apply code
   formatting rules.

## `pre-commit` hooks
The Dragonfly DB team has agreed to systematically use a number of pre-commit hooks to
normalize formatting of code. You need to install and enable pre-commit to have these used
when you do your own commits.

## License terms for contributions
Please see our [CLA agreement](./CLA.txt)

## THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS