| # Contributing |
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| ## Developer Certificate of Origin |
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| The Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) is a way to certify that you wrote or otherwise have the right to submit the code you are contributing to the project. |
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| By signing off on your contribution, you certify the following DCO (Version 1.1): |
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| > **Developer Certificate of Origin** |
| > Version 1.1 |
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| > Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors. |
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| > By making a contribution to this project, I certify that: |
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| > (a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I have the right to submit it under the open source license indicated in the file; or |
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| > (b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source license and I have the right under that license to submit that work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part by me, under the same open source license (unless I am permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated in the file; or |
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| > (c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified it. |
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| > (d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution are public and that a record of the contribution (including all personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with this project or the open source license(s) involved. |
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| ## Sign your work |
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| To certify the DCO, you must add a "Signed-off-by" line to your commit messages. |
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| **Important:** You must use your real name (no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions). |
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| **Example:** |
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| ```text |
| Fix typo in tokenizer config |
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| Signed-off-by: Your Name <your@email.com> |
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| ### Git Command |
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| If you are using the command line, you can sign off automatically by adding the `-s` flag: |
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| ```bash |
| git commit -s -m "Your commit message" |
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| ## Submitting changes |
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| 1. **Fork the repository** on Hugging Face. |
| 2. **Create a branch** for your fix. |
| 3. **Commit your changes** with the `-s` flag to sign them. |
| 4. **Open a Pull Request** (PR) on the Community tab of the model page. |
