Codewind Git Repo Setup

Setup Git Environment for Codewind Development

Complete the following steps to setup your Codewind Git repository.

• Step 1: Create a fork of repo
• Step 2: Setting up the inbound/outbound "triangle"

Step 1: Create a fork of repo

In this document, the eclipse/codewind repo is used as an example but the setup process is the same for other Codewind repos (you just need to replace the codewind repo name with the one that you are working on). The complete list of Codewind repos can be found in Codewind Project-Developer Resources.

Navigate to the corresponding repo page, e.g. https://github.com/eclipse/codewind, and click the Fork in the top upper right corner and select your account as the location to hold the fork. If you already have a fork, click the Fork button will bring you to your existing fork. Your fork will be called github-user/codewind.

Step 2: Setting up the inbound/outbound "triangle"

NOTE: The following highlighted commands are utilized from a Git-Bash command window. Also ensure that you've started your SSH agent.

Github Triangular Workflow:

First, create a directory on your local system to hold the source code.

 mkdir codewind
 cd codewind

Windows users: Set this config flag to allow file paths to go beyond 260 chars.

 git config --global core.longpaths true

Clone the main repository onto your local system via this command.

 git clone https://github.com/eclipse/codewind.git

Next, setup the second side of the triangle via this command (NOTE: ensure you change github-user to your public github.com user name and the directory to the repo directory name):

 cd codewind
 git remote add my_fork https://github.com/github-user/codewind.git

Next, configure the local repository to push your commits to the fork repository you created above:

 git config remote.pushdefault my_fork

This will now pull from origin, the main repository, and push to the fork, your fork repository.

This option requires at least Git 1.8.4. It is also recommended that you configure

 git config push.default simple

unless you are already using Git 2.0 where it is the default. To check the git version:

 git --version

Finally, the third side of the triangle is pull requests from your fork repo to the main repo.

You can run the following command to verify your triangle was created successfully:

 git remote -v

You should see output similar to the following:

 > $ git remote -v
 > my_fork https://github.com/github-user/codewind.git (fetch)
 > my_fork https://github.com/github-user/codewind.git (push)
 > origin  https://github.com/eclipse/codewind.git (fetch)
 > origin  https://github.com/eclipse/codewind.git (push)

You will need to setup your 'master' branch since integration is the default:

 git checkout -b master origin/master
 git pull
 git push
 

Now you are ready for development.

After you have make the code changes, commit the code to your fork and refer the instructions on Making a pull request to make a pull request. And the committer will go through the PR review process to review the code.