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# Contributing Guide
Contributing to Hosts is easy. This document shows you how to get started
## General
- The [Codebase Structure](https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/blob/master/codebase_structure.md) has
detailed information about how the various folders and files in this project are structured.
## Submitting changes
- Fork the repo
- <https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/fork>
- Check out a new branch based and name it to what you intend to do:
- Example:
```sh
git checkout -b BRANCH_NAME
```
If you get an error, you may need to fetch first, by using
```sh
git remote update && git fetch
```
- Use one branch per fix / feature
- Commit your changes
- Please provide a git message that explains what you've done
- Please make sure your commits follow the [conventions](https://gist.github.com/robertpainsi/b632364184e70900af4ab688decf6f53#file-commit-message-guidelines-md)
- Commit to the forked repository
- Example:
```sh
git commit -am 'Add some fooBar'
```
- Push to the branch
- Example:
```sh
git push origin BRANCH_NAME
```
- Make a pull request
- Make sure you send the PR to the `BRANCH_NAME` branch
If you follow these instructions, your Pull Request will land safely!