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+# Primer on adding or updating a language file used in Human Connection
+
+## Getting the current files as base for changes
+
+* Checkout the current repository if you have not done yet
+    ```git clone https://github.com/Human-Connection/Human-Connection.git```
+
+* Update an already existing repository to the most recent state
+
+```
+  git checkout master
+  git pull upstream master
+```
+
+* Create a branch for your coming changes based on the language code for your language.
+  For a list of all the codes based on ISO-639 see [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes).
+  Use the two-letter code in column *639-1* like *en* or *de*.
+
+  The branch name should help recognise what is happing in it. As a suggestion you could use the following pattern:
+
+  * Start with _update_ for updates, _new_ for new languages
+  * One minus sign
+  * Your two-letter language code
+  * Optionally another minus sign and short details if needed. Maybe a date or a release number if appropriate.
+  * Do not use spaces in the branch name, replace them with underscores instead.
+  
+  For example:  update-it-rev_1.2.3
+
+    ```git checkout -b update-it-rev_1.2.3```
+
+## Adding a new language
+
+
+## Updating an existing language file
+
+
+## Releasing your changes
+
+* Finally upload your changes to the offical repository
+  
+    ```git push origin update-it-rev_1.2.3```
+
+
+    Create a pull request for 'lokalise-automation' on GitHub by visiting:
+remote:      https://github.com/Human-Connection/Human-Connection/pull/new/lokalise-automation