Plans for git (was: Please check the current beta git conversions)

[Klaus Cucinauomo]

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> Am 05.09.2020 um 06:48 schrieb bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net>:
> 
> ….
> If anybody can offer an amateur’s tutorial it would be
> most helpful. ….
..
> Thanks for reading,
> 
> bob prohaska


Hi Bob,

Here`s a starting point as an „amateur"-tutorial for you:
Open a Web-Browser ,
Login into your git-account
Search the freebsd-git mirror(it’s read only for the public) in the search field in the upper left corner.(all GitHub)
Click  on it
Than click FORK on the right side .
Now you have your own copy where you can change the sources if needed 
(e.g. directly in the Web-browser).
That is the repo you will clone onto your target machines as mentioned in Warner`s prepared tutorial :
git clone -b (while b is the branch, let’s say normally it is : master), without the -b flag you would 
Copy all branches(you don’t need them all)
If you make changes in the sources:
git pull / git push
For later(advanced):
If you reach the "merge - conflict - area“ you can do a : git reset hard (to commit number)
You can set the original Fbsd-repo git repo as the remote , while your local copy is mostly called : origin
...git remote add … (useful if you want to synchronize your local copy with updated src)
Writing patches which can go to Phabricator I guess is not your intention for now.
For Desktops there is a git desktop version, which I use sometimes to revert single-patches and synchronize upgraded sources from local to remote ,
otherwise I find that Desktop-tool  quite useless :-)
Unknown for me if Fbsd will accept PRs(PullRequests) from the public in the near future…
The „issues“ - tab is for discussing bugs..

So for the beginning: just click Fork and clone the master-brach of YOUR Fbsd-copy onto your target machine..

This is written in 3 minutes out of my head, a bit chaotic :-) and misses details( the web is full of tutorials, some good and some useless ;-)..

Regards

Kls