If your [commit message sucks][suck], I'm not going to accept your pull request. I've explained very politely dozens of times that [my general guidelines][guidelines] are absolute rules on my own repositories, so I may lack the energy to explain it to you yet another time. And please, if I ask you to change something, `git commit --amend` and `git push -f`. If a feature idea is nontrivial, you should probably open an issue to [discuss it][] before attempting a pull request. One of the biggest challenges in maintaining rails.vim has been beating back the bloat, so do not assume that your idea will make the cut. And if I like your idea, I'm generally amenable to just knocking it out myself, rather than making you familiarize yourself with a 4 thousand line code base. [suck]: http://stopwritingramblingcommitmessages.com/ [guidelines]: http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html [discuss it]: http://www.igvita.com/2011/12/19/dont-push-your-pull-requests/