From fd6d3aac42505ae7791fde3bcd69d4641d5eb255 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marco Hinz <mh.codebro@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 14:57:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add CONTRIBUTING.md

---
 .gitignore      |  1 +
 CONTRIBUTING.md | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 CONTRIBUTING.md

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a785777..3c2704a 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -6,5 +6,6 @@
 !doc/startify.txt
 !plugin/startify.vim
 !README.md
+!CONTRIBUTING.md
 !syntax/startify.vim
 !startify.png
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a1921ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+CONTRIBUTING
+============
+
+If you intend to contribute to this project, please keep some simple rules in
+mind:
+
+    - the short commit message shouldn't be longer than 50 characters
+    - the short commit message should start with an uppercase character
+    - use the imperative for the short commit message
+    - don't use github-specific syntax to close an issue (I'll do that, when
+      merging into master)
+    - it's always a good idea to have a look at 'git log' to get an idea how to
+      format its own commits
+
+Examples
+--------
+
+Bad:  "fixed loop to start from 0 instead of 1"
+Good: "Avoid off-by-one issue in skiplist loop"
+
+Bad:  "fixed typo"
+Good: "Docs: typo"