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CONTRIBUTING.md

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+# Contributing
+
+## Where to start
+
+Contributions, bug reports, bug fixes, documentation improvements, enhancements, and ideas are
+welcome.
+
+The best place to start is to check the [issues](https://github.com/sanders41/python-project-generator/issues)
+for something that interests you.
+
+## Bug Reports
+
+Please include:
+
+1. A short, self-contained snippet reproducing the problem. You can format the code by using
+[GitHub markdown](https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/writing-on-github). For
+example:
+
+    ```sh
+    python-project create
+    ```
+
+2. Explain what is currently happening and what you expect instead.
+
+## Working on the code
+
+### Fork the project
+
+In order to work on the project you will need your own fork. To do this click the "Fork" button on
+this project.
+
+Once the project is forked clone it to your local machine:
+
+```sh
+git clone [email protected]:your-user-name/python-project-generator
+cd python-project-generator
+git remote add upstream [email protected]:sanders41/python-project-generator
+```
+
+This creates the directory python-project-generator and connects your repository to the upstream (main project)
+repository.
+
+### Creating a branch
+
+You want your main branch to reflect only production-ready code, so create a feature branch for
+making your changes. For example:
+
+```sh
+git checkout -b my-new-feature
+```
+
+This changes your working directory to the my-new-feature branch. Keep any changes in this branch
+specific to one bug or feature so the purpose is clear. You can have many my-new-features and switch
+in between them using the git checkout command.
+
+When creating this branch, make sure your main branch is up to date with the latest upstream
+main version. To update your local main branch, you can do:
+
+```sh
+git checkout main
+git pull upstream main --ff-only
+```
+
+### Code linting, formatting, and tests
+
+You can run linting on your code at any time with:
+
+```sh
+cargo clippy --all-targets
+```
+
+To format the code run:
+
+```sh
+cargo fmt
+```
+
+To run the tests:
+
+```sh
+cargo test
+```
+
+To ensure the code compiles run:
+
+```sh
+cargo check --all-targets
+```
+
+Be sure to run all these checks before submitting your pull request.
+
+## Committing your code
+
+Once you have made changes to the code on your branch you can see which files have changed by running:
+
+```sh
+git status
+```
+
+If new files were created that and are not tracked by git they can be added by running:
+
+```sh
+git add .
+```
+
+Now you can commit your changes in your local repository:
+
+```sh
+git commit -am 'Some short helpful message to describe your changes'
+```
+
+## Push your changes
+
+Once your changes are ready and all linting/tests are passing you can push your changes to your
+forked repository:
+
+```sh
+git push origin my-new-feature
+```
+
+origin is the default name of your remote repository on GitHub. You can see all of your remote
+repositories by running:
+
+```sh
+git remote -v
+```
+
+## Making a Pull Request
+
+After pushing your code to origin it is now on GitHub but not yet part of the python-project-generator project.
+When you’re ready to ask for a code review, file a pull request. Before you do, once again make sure
+that you have followed all the guidelines outlined in this document regarding code style, tests, and
+documentation. You should also double check your branch changes against the branch it was based on by:
+
+1. Navigating to your repository on GitHub
+1. Click on Branches
+1. Click on the Compare button for your feature branch
+1. Select the base and compare branches, if necessary. This will be main and my-new-feature, respectively.
+
+### Make the pull request
+
+If everything looks good, you are ready to make a pull request. This is how you let the maintainers
+of the python-project-generator project know you have code ready to be reviewed. To submit the pull request:
+
+1. Navigate to your repository on GitHub
+1. Click on the Pull Request button for your feature branch
+1. You can then click on Commits and Files Changed to make sure everything looks okay one last time
+1. Write a description of your changes in the Conversation tab
+1. Click Send Pull Request
+
+This request then goes to the repository maintainers, and they will review the code.
+
+### Updating your pull request
+
+Changes to your code may be needed based on the review of your pull request. If this is the case you
+can make them in your branch, add a new commit to that branch, push it to GitHub, and the pull
+request will be automatically updated. Pushing them to GitHub again is done by:
+
+```sh
+git push origin my-new-feature
+```
+
+This will automatically update your pull request with the latest code and restart the Continuous
+Integration tests.
+
+Another reason you might need to update your pull request is to solve conflicts with changes that
+have been merged into the main branch since you opened your pull request.
+
+To do this, you need to rebase your branch:
+
+```sh
+git checkout my-new-feature
+git fetch upstream
+git rebase upstream/main
+```
+
+There may be some merge conficts that need to be resolved. After the feature branch has been update
+locally, you can now update your pull request by pushing to the branch on GitHub:
+
+```sh
+git push origin my-new-feature
+```
+
+If you rebased and get an error when pushing your changes you can resolve it with:
+
+```sh
+git push origin my-new-feature --force
+```
+
+## Delete your merged branch (optional)
+
+Once your feature branch is accepted into upstream, you’ll probably want to get rid of the branch.
+First, merge upstream main into your main branch so git knows it is safe to delete your branch:
+
+```sh
+git fetch upstream
+git checkout main
+git merge upstream/main
+```
+
+Then you can do:
+
+```sh
+git branch -d my-new-feature
+```
+
+Make sure you use a lower-case -d, or else git won’t warn you if your feature branch has not
+actually been merged.
+
+The branch will still exist on GitHub, so to delete it there do:
+
+```sh
+git push origin --delete my-new-feature
+```

README.md

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 ```sh
 python-project config reset
 ```
+
+## Contributing
+
+If you are interested in contributing please see our [contributing guide](CONTRIBUTING.md)