Documentation/4.1/Developers/Tutorials/ContributePatch

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The following instructions describes the recommended workflow to contribute patch to Slicer code base.

It is also assumed you followed the New community member checklist and have a clone of https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/.

• 1. Create an issue in the tracker. For example, see issue #1906

• 2. Make sure your fork has a git remote. Replace jcfr with your git login.

git remote add jcfr git@github.com:jcfr/Slicer.git

• 3. Create a topic named <issuer_number>-a-descriptive-topic-name. For example:

git checkout -b 1906-uninstall-extensions-on-restart

• 4. Add a note to the issue with a link pointing to your topic. For example, see note 1906#c4578

• 5. Send an email on the slicer-developers list pointing to the reported bug. Title of the email should start with [BUG <IssueNumber>] Title of the bug - <category>