Git repositories infrastructure ------------------------------- Master repositories (ines.ro) ----------------------------- git://lisa.ines.ro/lisa.git git://lisa.ines.ro/linux-2.6.git Mirror repositories (cs.pub.ro) ------------------------------- git://ixlabs.cs.pub.ro/lisa.git git://ixlabs.cs.pub.ro/linux-2.6.git Steps to create your own git mirror of LiSA: -------------------------------------------- cd /path/to/git-root (can be anywhare you like, for example /var/lib/git) mkdir lisa.git cd lisa.git git init --bare --shared Edit config and add the section: [remote "origin"] url = git://lisa.ines.ro/lisa.git fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/heads/* git remote update Run daily or weekly a script that executes git remote update in the bare repositories dirs. The steps are identical for linux-2.6.git mirror. git daemon configuration ------------------------ service git { disable = no bind = port = 9418 socket_type = stream protocol = tcp user = git group = git server = /usr/bin/git-daemon server_args = --inetd --export-all --base-path=/var/lib/git type = UNLISTED wait = no max_load = 5 instances = 5 } The git group may be used to manage write permissions on /var/lib/git/lisa.git. All users that need to push shall be added to the git group and appropriate permissions shall be set on the /var/lib/git/lisa.git (drwxrwsr-x+) Working with git ---------------- 1. Git global configuration variables. git config --global user.name 'Your Name' git config --global user.email 'your.email@yourispdomain' git config --global color.diff auto git config --global color.status auto git config --global color.branch auto 2. Cloning lisa from the git mirror hosted in cs.pub.ro: git clone git://ixlabs.cs.pub.ro/lisa.git git submodule init Edit .git/config and set the submodule linux-2.6 to point to the mirror's url: [submodule "linux-2.6"] url = git://ixlabs.cs.pub.ro/linux-2.6.git git submodule update cd linux-2.6 git checkout -b lisa-devel origin/lisa-devel Compile your kernel here with lisa support. It's recommended for the development phase to have lisa compiled as a module. 3. Working with your local git repository: As an example let's assume you're developing code on the user space part of lisa. In lisa.git we're commiting on the master branch and you'll want to keep in sync with it. You'll split a branch from the current master branch for your development: git checkout -b your_branch origin/master your_branch can be named however you want (for example by suggesting the feature name: lisa-stp, lisa-igmp etc). You'll be doing work on this branch, but from time to time you'll need to sync with the master branch. For example, let's say that the master branch evolved with 3 commits from where you split your branch: o origin/master | o o your_branch | | o o | / o---------/ in order to sync you can either do a merge or a rebase. We recommend the rebase since the history will look much prettier [1]: git remote update git rebase origin/master Fix conflicts, make everything compile again, run tests etc. After this your branch will look like this: o your_branch | o | o origin/master | o | o | o Whenever you feel you have something you want to put up for review you need to push your branch into the repository where you've cloned from (cs.pub.ro mirror): git push ssh://user@ixlabs.cs.pub.ro/var/lib/git/lisa.git your_branch It's important that your_branch doesn't exist in the main lisa.git because otherwise it would be overwritten by the mirroring process. [1] - Use 'gitk --all' to visualize the history of your repository.