Git

Getting VLC source code via Git

git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git

You can also browse the sources via gitweb.

Tell git your name. (used by mostly by git-commit)

$ git repo-config user.name "Your Name"
$ git repo-config user.email "me@example.com"

You can now list your local branch by doing

$ git branch

which should ouput

$ git branch
* master

Now you can start to work on your tree. As soon as you feel you've reached a step in developement you can commit locally your work by

$ git commit -a

or

$ git commit <specific files>

$ git fetch origin
$ git rebase origin

voilà! Your commit will be re-applied on top of the origin (the svn trunk).

If you want to work on a specific project that could require a branch of the trunk, create a local branch of the current branch by doing:

$ git branch mywork

and to actually use it do:

$ git checkout mywork

Then do some commit on it...

$ git checkout master

to go back to your normal branch

If you have been developing on vlc locally and (still) don't have write access to it you can submit all your commit in one shot using:

$ git format-patch -o out origin

which will produce the patches for each local commit in the directory "out", or by using

$ git format-patch --stdout --attach -n origin | git-imap-send

which will directly produces the emails and store them in a imap mail box, provided that you have properly set up git-imap-send.