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@ -5,6 +5,25 @@ successful with your contribution if you visit the [IRC
channel](http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=sway&uio=d4) upfront and discuss
your plans.
## Pull Requests
If you already have your own pull request habits, feel free to use them. If you
don't, however, allow me to make a suggestion: feature branches pulled from
upstream. Try this:
1. Fork sway
2. Clone your fork
3. git remote add upstream git://github.com/SirCmpwn/sway.git
You only need to do this once. You're never going to use your fork's master
branch. Instead, when you start working on a feature, do this:
1. git fetch upstream
2. git checkout -b add-so-and-so-feature upstream/master
3. work
4. git push -u origin add-so-and-so-feature
5. Make pull request from your feature branch
## Coding Style
Sway is written in C. The style guidelines is [kernel