Using a central git tree
See importing your project if you're importing a new project to the OLPC servers -- because you'll have to do a few extra things before you can get up and running.
If you're familiar with centralized systems like CVS or SVN, this will be just learning a bit of new syntax.
Identify yourself
Tell git who you are:
$ git config user.name "FirstName LastName" $ git config user.email "user@example.com"
This is used in commit messages. You only ever need to do this once per each machine on which you do development.
Clone the central tree
Using a git over ssh, if you have an account on dev.laptop.org,
$ git clone git+ssh://dev.laptop.org/projects/MYPROJECT
or if you have no account,
$ git clone git://dev.laptop.org/projects/MYPROJECT
You only ever need to do this once per each machine on which you do development.
Hack on the code
Pretty self-explanatory, we'd hope.
Do local commits
Use git add <file> to add files to version control. Delete files from the tree directly if you want them removed, or use git rm <file>. Commit with:
$ git commit -a
This will ask for a commit message using a text editor. You may add -m "Commit message" to specify it on the command line. Use -s to add the Signed-off-by line commonly used in Linux kernel development.
Push commits upstream
$ git push
If someone else has updated the tree since you last pulled from it, and git cannot resolve the changes easily, git will complain. In this case, do a git pull --rebase, and then repeat the push.
Pull upstream commits
This brings to your machine the changes made by others. It is the CVS equivalent of update:
$ git pull
See also
- Git
- Using a central git tree
- Importing your project
- Creating a personal git tree
- Git tips
- Project hosting
- git home page
- Read more about git on Wikipedia
- Freedesktop Git
- Guide to git for SVN users