On Nov 19, 2007, at 11:40 PM, Nathaniel Gray wrote:
I'd like to do some light hacking on the X11 code base but I'm having
a hard time understanding the development model. Are you pushing
changes to the fd.o repository, or do you send patches to Ben? Can
you provide a clue on how I can stay up to date with your changes
while working on my own? I'd be happy to read some docs online if you
have any suggestions.
With git, everybody has their own repository. A CVS checkout only
gives you a local copy and enough bookkeeping metadata to commit back
to the (one and only) repository. A git clone makes a local
repository which is a copy (clone) of some other repository. With
git, you can (and normally do) commit to your local repository. You
only need commit rights at the shared repository if you want to then
push your local commits to it.
So, if you want to "do some light hacking", you presumably don't need
commit access to the fd.o repository, you can just work with your
local one. The general pattern after that, to get recent changes
from the fd.o repository to your own, is to do:
git fetch origin && git rebase origin/<name of head>
(I'm assuming you're using git >= v1.5. If you're using an earlier
version of git, your cloned repository is likely to have different
names for things.)
I hope that's helpful.
Cheers,
Ken
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