You are welcome to contribute to project PaddleGAN. Contributions can be:
- documentation
- source code and bug fixes
- new features or models
- solve existing issues
We sincerely appreciate your contribution. This document explains our workflow and work style.
The following guidiance tells you how to submit code.
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Transfer to the home page of Github PaddleGAN, and then click button
Fork
to generate the git under your own file directory, such as https://github.com/USERNAME/PaddleGAN. -
Clone
Clone remote git to local:
➜ git clone https://github.com/USERNAME/PaddleGAN ➜ cd PaddleGAN
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Create local branch
At present Git stream branch model is applied to PaddleGAN to undergo task of development, test, release and maintenance. All development tasks of feature and bug fix should be finished in a new branch which is extended from
master
branch.Create and switch to a new branch with command
git checkout -b
.➜ git checkout -b my-cool-stuff
It is worth noting that before the checkout, you need to keep the current branch directory clean, otherwise the untracked file will be brought to the new branch, which can be viewed by
git status
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Use
pre-commit
hookWe use the pre-commit tool to manage Git pre-commit hooks. It helps us format the source code (C++, Python) and automatically check some basic things before committing (such as having only one EOL per file, not adding large files in Git, etc.).
The
pre-commit
test is part of the unit test in Travis-CI. A PR that does not satisfy the hook cannot be submitted to Paddle. Installpre-commit
first and then run it in current directory:➜ pip install pre-commit ➜ pre-commit install
Once installed,
pre-commit
checks the style of code and documentation in every commit. We will see something like the following when you rungit commit
:➜ git commit CRLF end-lines remover...............................(no files to check)Skipped yapf.................................................(no files to check)Skipped Check for added large files..............................................Passed Check for merge conflicts................................................Passed Check for broken symlinks................................................Passed Detect Private Key...................................(no files to check)Skipped Fix End of Files.....................................(no files to check)Skipped clang-formater.......................................(no files to check)Skipped [my-cool-stuff c703c041] add test file 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 233
NOTE: The
yapf
installed bypip install pre-commit
andconda install -c conda-forge pre-commit
is slightly different. We usepip install pre-commit
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Start development
I delete a line of README.md and create a new file in the case.
View the current state via
git status
, which will prompt some changes to the current directory, and you can also view the file's specific changes viagit diff
.➜ git status On branch test Changes not staged for commit: (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory) modified: README.md Untracked files: (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) test no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
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Test
Add unit testing if needed.
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Commit
Next we cancel the modification of README.md, and submit new added test file.
➜ git checkout -- README.md ➜ git status On branch test Untracked files: (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) test nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track) ➜ git add test
It's required that the commit message is also given on every Git commit, through which other developers will be notified of what changes have been made. Type
git commit
to realize it.➜ git commit CRLF end-lines remover...............................(no files to check)Skipped yapf.................................................(no files to check)Skipped Check for added large files..............................................Passed Check for merge conflicts................................................Passed Check for broken symlinks................................................Passed Detect Private Key...................................(no files to check)Skipped Fix End of Files.....................................(no files to check)Skipped clang-formater.......................................(no files to check)Skipped [my-cool-stuff c703c041] add test file 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 233
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Keep pulling
An experienced Git user pulls from the official repo often -- daily or even hourly, so they notice conflicts with others work early, and it's easier to resolve smaller conflicts.
Check the name of current remote repository with
git remote
.➜ git remote origin ➜ git remote -v origin https://github.com/USERNAME/PaddleGAN (fetch) origin https://github.com/USERNAME/PaddleGAN (push)
origin is the name of remote repository that we clone, we create a remote host of an original PaddleGAN and name it upstream.
➜ git remote add upstream https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleGAN ➜ git remote origin upstream
Get the latest code of upstream and update current branch.
➜ git fetch upstream ➜ git pull upstream develop
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Push to remote repository
Push local modification to GitHub (https://github.com/USERNAME/PaddleGAN).
# submit it to remote git the branch my-cool-stuff of origin ➜ git push origin my-cool-stuff
The push allows you to create a pull request, requesting owners of this official repo to pull your change into the official one.
To create a pull request, please follow these steps.
If your change is for fixing an issue, please write "Fixes " in the description section of your pull request. Github would close the issue when the owners merge your pull request.
Please remember to specify some reviewers for your pull request. If you don't know who are the right ones, please follow Github's recommendation.
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Delete local and remote branches
To keep your local workspace and your fork clean, you might want to remove merged branches:
git push origin :my-cool-stuff git checkout develop git pull upstream develop git branch -d my-cool-stuff
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Please feel free to ping your reviewers by sending them the URL of your pull request via IM or email. Please do this after your pull request passes the CI.
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Please answer reviewers' every comment. If you are to follow the comment, please write "Done"; please give a reason otherwise.
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If you don't want your reviewers to get overwhelmed by email notifications, you might reply their comments by in a batch.
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Reduce the unnecessary commits. Some developers commit often. It is recommended to append a sequence of small changes into one commit by running
git commit --amend
instead ofgit commit
.
Our C/C++ code follows the Google style guide.
Our Python code follows the PEP8 style guide.
Please install pre-commit, which automatically reformat the changes to C/C++ and Python code whenever we run git commit
.
Please remember to add related unit tests.
- For C/C++ code, please follow
google-test
Primer . - For Python code, please use Python's standard
unittest
package.