From 40bf87a236f2fe523d4964bca8eb8dd2a44b83b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 11:16:09 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc/manual.txt: added "Contributing" section.

---
 doc/manual.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/manual.txt b/doc/manual.txt
index de9ac342a5a..5edd3382b30 100644
--- a/doc/manual.txt
+++ b/doc/manual.txt
@@ -402,3 +402,19 @@ package is downloaded, compiled and installed.
 
 NOTE: A function defined in a template has preference over the same function
 defined by a `build_style` script.
+
+Contributing via git
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+You can fork the `xbps-packages` git repository on github and then set up
+a remote to pull in new changes:
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+$ git remote add upstream git://github.com/voidlinux/xbps-packages.git
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+To pull in new changes from `upstream`:
+
+--------------------------
+$ git pull upstream master
+--------------------------