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So you want to contribute to PCSX2? Great
As a first step, please review these links as they'll help you understand how the development of PCSX2 works.
- Just Starting Out
- Issue Reporting
- Pull Request Guidelines
- General Documentation And Coding Strategies
- Tasks
Just Starting Out
- If you're unfamilar with git, check out this brief introduction to Git
- How to build PCSX2 for Windows
- How to build PCSX2 for Linux
Issue Reporting
Pull Request Guidelines
The following is a list of general style recommendations that will make reviewing and merging easier:
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Commit Messages
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Please try to prefix your commit message, indicating what area of the project was modified.
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gs: message.... - Looking at the project's commit history will help with keeping prefixes consistent overtime, there is no strictly enforced list.
- For example
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Try to keep messages brief and informative
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Remove unnecessary commits and squash commits together when appropriate.
- If you are not familiar with rebasing with git, check out the following resources:
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Code Styling and Formatting
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Run
clang-formatusing the configuration file in the root of the repository- Visual Studio Setup - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/clangformat-support-in-visual-studio-2017-15-7-preview-1/
- IMPORTANT - if you are running
clang-formaton unrelated changes (ie. formatting an entire file), please do so in a separate commit.- If you cannot scope your
clang-formatto just your changes and do not want to format unrelated code. Try your best to stick with the existing formatting already established in the file in question.
- If you cannot scope your