It is recommended that you use the following guidelines to contribute to the Soapbox project:
* Understand recommended [GitLab Flow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InKNIvky2KE) methods on branch management
* Use the following branch management process:
* Pull a fork
* Mirror the fork against the original repository, setting the mirror to only mirror to protected branches
* Set the master branch in your fork to Protected
* Never modify the master branch in your fork, so that your fork mirroring does not break
* Pull branches in your fork to solve specific issues
* Do merge requests only to the original repository master branch, so that your fork mirroring does not break
* If you don't use the above policy, when your mirrored fork breaks mirroring, you can force your fork to back to successful mirroring using the following process:
* Unprotect the master branch of your fork from force push
* Use the following git commands from the cmd line of your local copy of your fork's master branch
```
git remote add upstream /url/to/original/repo
git fetch upstream
git checkout master
git reset --hard upstream/master
git push origin master --force
```
* Re-protect the master branch of your fork from force push
Please note we have a code of conduct, please follow it in all your interactions with the project.
