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Contributing to composefs

Thanks for your interest in contributing!

Note: Before writing a big patch

If you plan to contribute a large change, please get in touch before submitting a pull request by e.g. filing an issue describing your proposed change. This will help ensure alignment.

Background knowledge

You will need to understand C to contribute to the core. There is also some Rust (more on this below).

Development environment

Composefs at its core is a low-dependency C library and CLI tools. You'll need a Linux environment, which could be a container or a VM/physical system.

composefs should be buildable on nearly any relatively modern Linux OS/distribution.

Building and testing

composefs uses meson - please refer to the general documentation there for more information.

Setup

meson setup target --prefix=/usr

Note the choice of target for the build directory to mesh with the Rust defaults.

Building and testing

meson compile -C target
meson test -C target

Code linting

Be sure you've run

ninja -C target clang-format

to reformat the code automatically.

Submitting a patch

The podman project has some generic useful guidance; like that project, a "Developer Certificate of Origin" is required.

Sign your PRs

The sign-off is a line at the end of the explanation for the patch. Your signature certifies that you wrote the patch or otherwise have the right to pass it on as an open-source patch. The rules are simple: if you can certify the below (from developercertificate.org):

Developer Certificate of Origin
Version 1.1

Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
660 York Street, Suite 102,
San Francisco, CA 94110 USA

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
license document, but changing it is not allowed.

Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1

By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:

(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
    have the right to submit it under the open source license
    indicated in the file; or

(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
    of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
    license and I have the right under that license to submit that
    work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
    by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
    permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
    in the file; or

(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
    person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
    it.

(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
    are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
    personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is
    maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
    this project or the open source license(s) involved.

Then you just add a line to every git commit message:

Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <[email protected]>

Use your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions.)

If you set your user.name and user.email git configs, you can sign your commit automatically with git commit -s.

Git commit style

Please look at git log and match the commit log style, which is very similar to the Linux kernel.

General Commit Message Guidelines:

  1. Title
    • Specify the context or category of the changes e.g. lib for library changes, docs for document changes, bin/<command-name> for command changes, etc.
    • Begin the title with the first letter of the first word capitalized.
    • Aim for less than 50 characters, otherwise 72 characters max.
    • Do not end the title with a period.
    • Use an imperative tone.
  2. Body
    • Separate the body with a blank line after the title.
    • Begin a paragraph with the first letter of the first word capitalized.
    • Each paragraph should be formatted within 72 characters.
    • Content should be about what was changed and why this change was made.
    • If your commit fixes an issue, the commit message should end with Closes: #<number>.

Commit Message example:

<context>: Less than 50 characters for subject title

A paragraph of the body should be within 72 characters.

This paragraph is also less than 72 characters.

For more information see How to Write a Git Commit Message