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===General overview of git===
===General overview of git===
Read this brief overview and then '''start''' with James Cameron's [[Activity Team/Git Tutorial|git tutorial]].
====Setup (once per machine you're working on):====
git clone git://git.sugarlabs.org/whatever/mainline.git whatever
====Regular usage:====
cd whatever
[hack away and test your changes]
git diff
[review your changes, go back to hacking if you notice a mistake]
git status
git add NameOfNewFile # if you created any file you want included
git commit -a
[describe your changes - by convention the first line is a summary and the remaining lines are long description]
[start again at hacking if you're offline]
git log origin/master..master # shows you all commits not pushed yet
git push # if/once you are online
Git offers a lot more commands and features that can make your life
easier, but it's best to start off small and use only those mentioned
above. It's very easy to get confused if you're unfamiliar with git.
Even if you use the more advanced features, git does a pretty good job at
allowing you to recover from your mistakes.
So if you ever mess up and don't know how to fix it yourself, please
stop (at least for me that's usually the hardest part ;) ), try to
recollect the exact sequence of actions (e.g. from shell history) and ask
for help.
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Once you have [[Activity Team/How_to_migrate_from_OLPC|migrated]] your project, you may have some more detailed [[Activity Team/Git FAQ|questions regarding how Sugar Labs uses git]], particularly in regard to patch management.
Once you have [[Activity Team/How_to_migrate_from_OLPC|migrated]] your project, you may have some more detailed [[Activity Team/Git FAQ|questions regarding how Sugar Labs uses git]], particularly in regard to patch management.