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Correct the branch name and template placeholders in CONTRIBUTING.md - #279
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The file tells contributors to target `develop`. That branch does not exist and never has. agents.md says `main`, and that matches every merged pull request. The file also still carries four placeholders from the template it was copied from: three links pointing at `yourname/yourrepo` and `your-user-name/my-package`, and an unfinished `TODO` item in the DOs and DON'Ts list. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TK6dHqkZwhjWUrZNnnb8MG
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Problem
CONTRIBUTING.mdtells contributors to target thedevelopbranch:There is no
developbranch in this repository, and there never has been.git for-each-reffinds no such ref, nothing in the history mentions one, and the last 12 merged pull requests all targetmain.agents.mdalready says the right thing:So a new contributor who reads
CONTRIBUTING.mdfirst goes looking for a branch that is not there.The same file still carries four placeholders from the template it was copied from. It was added in the first commit (
1aff122, January 2025) and has not been edited since, so these have been there from the start:https://github.com/yourname/yourrepo/issuesin "Finding Existing Issues"https://github.com/your-user-name/my-package/...in the bug report linkhttps://github.com/your-user-name/my-package/...in the API proposal link* TODO: any other guidelines you want people to followin the DOs and DON'Ts listChange
developbecomesmain.TODOitem is removed.Documentation only. Nothing else in the file is touched, so the API approval process and the rest of the guidelines read as before.
Tests
None. No code changed. I followed both links to the issue templates and they open the correct forms.
While checking this I noticed the labels the issue forms ask for (
api-suggestion,feature,triage) and theapi-approvedlabel thatCONTRIBUTING.mdmentions do not exist in the repository, so GitHub drops them when an issue is created. I left that alone, since deciding whether to create those labels or change the text is your call, not a typo fix. Happy to follow up if you want it.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
https://claude.ai/code/session_01TK6dHqkZwhjWUrZNnnb8MG