[Fedora-livecd-list] my livecd-tools git notes
Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 05:23 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
> (I'm getting a sense of deja vu, that I'm learning the same lesson
> someone else recently learned here. Lets see if the 3rd time is the
> charm...)
It looks like you're getting hit by what Colin was where the list is
eating some attachments :-/ FWIW, the "best" way of sending patches
directly from git is git-format-patch followed by git-send-email; I need
to sit down and write up some simple docs for using git + livecd-creator
and best practices. Where's that 36 hour day? ;-)
While I may use git-send-email someday, for the moment I prefer
attaching the patch manually to a thunderbird composed email. What I
did to get the 3rd one through, was to manually delete the 4 email
header style lines from the git-format-patch patch (which I then
verified is still a validly apply-able patch syntax).
Anyway, FWIW, here are the notes I made to myself while learning the
second minimal level of git functionality. Obviously no need for a
livecd-tools rehash of the fine git tutorials and docs already
available. Or at least not for anything much more complicated than what
is attached.
-dmc
# initial checkout
git clone git://git.fedoraproject.org/git/hosted/livecd
cd livecd
# create new overlay branch
git branch overlay
# list branches (now master and overlay)
git branch
# switch to overlay branch
git checkout overlay
# edit Makefile, first thing
# run git gui, notice nothing reflecting the Makefile edit, as it is
# uncommitted
gitk
# set identity (commit complains if not set)
git config user.email "dmc(a)filteredperception.org"
git config user.name "Douglas McClendon"
# commit makefile (and all changes)
git commit -a
# add findoverlay script
cd creator
cp /somewhere/findoverlay ./findoverlay
git add findoverlay
# commit findoverlay
git commit -a
# notice gitk coolness
gitk
# generate patchset (1 per commit in mailer format)
git-format-patch master
# notice that sending in that format as an attachment causes problems,
# due to embedded mailer fields, so manually edit and remove those top
# 4 lines, then verified that patch still understands the format, and
# the result does make it to fedora-livecd-list