Liquid War 6: Using GIT

3.17 Using GIT

3.17.1 About GIT

There’s no CVS or Subversion (AKA “SVN”) source depot for Liquid War 6. Instead, a GIT depot is used. GIT has many advantages over other source control managers (SCM), among them, it’s distributed, like GNU Arch.

You can find interesting informations on GIT here:

3.17.2 Getting the latest source

Simply install git and run the following command:

git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/liquidwar6.git

If you are behing a firewall and can’t have direct TCP/IP access:

git clone http://git.sv.gnu.org/r/liquidwar6.git

Additionnally, source can be browsed online here: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/liquidwar6.git

3.17.3 Developper access

You need an ssh access on Savannah and appropriate rights on the project, then you can type:

git clone login@git.sv.gnu.org:/srv/git/liquidwar6.git

3.17.4 Submitting patches

If you have developper access to the project, then a simply git push will commit your changes.

If not (that is, if you checked out anonymously using git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/liquidwar6.git for instance, you can still submit patches. Follow these steps:

edit the code, make your patches, commit to your local GIT tree
run git format-patch -p origin this command will generate .patch files, one for each of you commits, which you can send by email. They can be easily integrated in the main source tree by using git apply <file.patch>.

Note that you can need to run git format-patch -p master (with master instead of origin) it not using a fresh checkout. Also consider adding the --stdout switch, eg git format-patch -p master --stdout > my-changes.patch if you’re not using a fresh checkout.