bat-extras/CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing

Are you interested in contributing to bat-extras? That's great!
All we ask is that you keep a few things in mind:

DOs:

• Use Bashisms whenever possible (unless it would make the code unclear). These are scripts written specifically for the bash shell, and they should take advantage of built-in functionality instead of spawning external processes.
• Use awk or sed when it would be faster or less verbose than only using bash builtins.

DON'Ts:

• Include crude or offensive language inside issues or scripts.
• Use GNU/BSD-only features in external programs like sed or awk.
• Use bash features that require a Bash version newer than 3.2.
• Use head in a pipe. See Issue #19 for more details.
• Use any external program that isn't likely to come installed by default (e.g. avoid perl and python).
• Automatically reformat scripts unless it's a pull request specifically intended for reformatting. The formatting style that we use differs from what shfmt and other shell script formatters will emit.