This document outlines some of the conventions on development workflow, commit message formatting, contact points and other resources to make it easier to get your contribution accepted.
This is a rough outline of what a contributor's workflow looks like:
Thanks for your contributions!
The coding style suggested by the Golang community is used in TiDB. See the style doc for details.
Please follow this style to make TiDB easy to review, maintain and develop.
We follow a rough convention for commit messages that is designed to answer two questions: what changed and why. The subject line should feature the what and the body of the commit should describe the why.
store/localstore: add comment for variable declaration.
Improve documentation.
The format can be described more formally as follows:
<subsystem>: <what changed>
<BLANK LINE>
<why this change was made>
<BLANK LINE>
<footer>(optional)
The first line is the subject and should be no longer than 70 characters, the second line is always blank, and other lines should be wrapped at 80 characters. This allows the message to be easier to read on GitHub as well as in various git tools.
If the change affects more than one subsystem, you can use comma to separate them like util/codec,util/types:
.
If the change affects many subsystems, you can use *
instead, like *:
.
For the why part, if no specific reason for the change, you can use one of some generic reasons like "Improve documentation.", "Improve performance.", "Improve robustness.", "Improve test coverage."