From e34904bd515d876d2b24a53be9540bbc70ab7763 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ethan Uppal <113849268+ethanuppal@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:57:46 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add PR guidelines

Signed-off-by: Ethan Uppal <113849268+ethanuppal@users.noreply.github.com>
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 Contributing.md | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Contributing.md b/Contributing.md
index 49496cf222..27f377ecd4 100644
--- a/Contributing.md
+++ b/Contributing.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # <a name="main-section-overview"></a>Dolphin Coding Style & Legal Requirements
 
 - [Legal](#legal)
+- [Pull requests](#pull-requests)
 - [Coding style introduction](#introduction)
 - [C++ coding style and formatting](#cpp-coding-style-and-formatting)
 - [C++ code-specific guidelines](#cpp-code-specific-guidelines)
@@ -33,6 +34,13 @@ Because large language models are trained on massive amounts of data gathered fr
 
 If you make any contributions to Dolphin after December 1st, 2014, you are agreeing that any code you have contributed will be licensed under the GNU GPL version 2 (or any later version).
 
+# <a name="pull-requests"></a>Pull requests
+
+Pull requests must have a clean history.
+This precludes commits with only small fixes.
+
+It is desirable for the area of the code edited to be prefixed to the commit name (e.g., `GCAdapter: Automatically start and stop thread` or `Android: Add page table fastmem to Debug setting`).
+
 # <a name="introduction"></a>Coding style introduction
 
 Summary: