CONTRIBUTING: Make clearer where branch policy can be found

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Niklas Hambüchen 2 years ago committed by GitHub
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## Submitting changes
Read the ["Submitting changes"](https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#chap-submitting-changes) section of the nixpkgs manual. It explains how to write, test, and iterate on your change, and which branch to base your pull request against.
Below is a short excerpt of some points in there:
* Format the commit messages in the following way:
```
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* If there is no upstream license, `meta.license` should default to `lib.licenses.unfree`.
* `meta.maintainers` must be set.
See the nixpkgs manual for more details on [standard meta-attributes](https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-standard-meta-attributes) and on how to [submit changes to nixpkgs](https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#chap-submitting-changes).
See the nixpkgs manual for more details on [standard meta-attributes](https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#sec-standard-meta-attributes).
## Writing good commit messages

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