1 - Fork a repo
2 - Clone the sevntu.checkstyle project to your local machine (username – your Github user account name.):
$ git clone git@github.com:USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git
3 - Configure remotes:
$ cd REPOSITORY_FOLDER
$ git remote add upstream git://github.com/USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git
4 - Create a branch for new check:
$ git checkout -b my-new-check
5 - Develop on my-new-check branch only, but Do not merge the upstream master with your development branch!! 6 - Commit changes to my-new-check branch:
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "commit message"
7 - Push branch to GitHub, to allow your mentor to review your code:
$ git push origin my-new-check
8 - Repeat steps 5-7 till development is complete. 9 - Fetch upstream changes that were done by other contributors:
$ git fetch upstream
10 - Update local master:
$ git checkout master
$ git pull upstream master
ATTENTION: any time you lost of track of your code – launch “gitk —all” in source folder, UI application come up that will show all branches and history in pretty view, explanation.
11 - Rebase my-new-check branch on top of the upstream master:
$ git checkout my-new-check
$ git rebase master
12 - In the process of the rebase, it may discover conflicts. In that case it will stop and allow you to fix the conflicts. After fixing conflicts, use git add . to update the index with those contents, and then just run:
$ git rebase --continue
13 - Push branch to GitHub (with all your final changes and actual code of sevntu.checkstyle): We forcing changes to your issue branch(our sand box) is not common branch, and rebasing means recreation of commits so no way to push without force. NEVER force to common branch.
$ git push origin my-new-check --force
14 - Created build for testing and send it to any mentor for testing.
15 - Only after all testing is done – Send a Pull Request. Attention: Please recheck that in your pull request you send only your changes, and no other changes!! Check it by command:
$ git diff my-new-check upstream/master
More detailed information you can find on Git-Workflow, Git-rebase and Rebasing.
Hello. AMHA
--force
should be replaced by--force-with-lease
.