Activity Team/Git Migration

Import a module from dev.laptop.org

• Create an account on http://git.sugarlabs.org
• Log in and create a new project from the projects page (please use only lower case, e.g. sugar, turtleart, sugar-toolkit).
• Clone your git module from dev.laptop.org, e.g.

git-clone git://dev.laptop.org/projects/pippy-activity

• See all the remote branches with:

git remote show origin

• Check out the remote branches you want to migrate, e.g.

git checkout -b sucrose-0.82 origin/sucrose-0.82

• Push it to git.sugarlabs.org with something like:

git push gitorious@git.sugarlabs.org:sugar/mainline.git --mirror

• Add the pootle user as a committer (from the "add committer" link on the mainline page) and send mail to Sayamindu, to point pootle to new remote.
• Notify sugar-devel about the move.
• Make sure that sugar-jhbuild points to the new repository (ask someone to do it for you if you have no access)

Clone a module from git.sugarlabs.org

Instructions on how to clone a project from the git repositories of sugarlabs.org can be found at the project's repos/mainline page, for example for sugar-jhbuild. And here is an example:

git clone git://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar-jhbuild/mainline.git sugar-jhbuild

Git commit message guidelines

These are guidelines to enhance the readability of the commit messages and the release notes which are made with git-shortlog. Please try to follow them as much as possible and make suggestions in the [ http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel sugar devel mailing list] of you find things missing, the guidelines completely insane or anything related.

• The commit message should start with a single short (less than 50 character) line summarizing the change, followed by a blank line and then a more thorough description. Tools that turn commits into email, for example, use the first line on the Subject: line and the rest of the commit in the body. The git-shortlog command that we use to write the release notes will strip the more detailed description.

• If your commit does fix a certain bug make sure that the summarizing line contains the bug number prepended by a '#' at the end of the line (e.g. #14). It is implied that you mean the Sugar Labs trac instance. If not please prepend an identifier like OLPC#123 and RH#456.

• Start your commit message with a capital letter.

• Suffix no dot at the end of the summarizing line.

• Fixes for typing errors and pylint fixes happen quite often. Just mark them _Typo and respectively _Pylint for easier reading.