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For your convenience, a git mirror of the VLC svn tree has been set up. Here is a tutorial on how to use the git VLC repository.

You can read more about the VLC svn tree on our [[Subversion| Subversion wiki page]].

= Basic Git usage =
== Getting VLC source code via Git ==
 $ git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git
Voilà! The full VLC history should be on your hard disk in vlc/. Type
 $ git log
to see the full log of the trunk.
 $ gitk
to see the log graphically.

You can also browse the sources via [http://git.videolan.org/ gitweb].


== Configure your global git config ==
=== Personal Information ===
Tell git your name. (use mostly by git-commit)
 $ git config --global user.name "Your Name"
 $ git config --global user.email "me@example.com"

=== Using git with color ===
If you want to use git with colored output use:
 $ git config --global color.ui true

== General GIT Workflow ==
1.  Make your file edits in your local repository.

2.  "git commit"      the changes in your local repository

3.  "git pull --rebase"    to bring the rest of your local repository up to date

4.  "git log origin..master"    to check what you are going to commit

4.  "git push"    to move your changes up to the master

"git stash"    if you want to "hide" your changes.  Do this if you think there may be other commits against ther same things you are working on, want to refresh yourself (using a git pull --rebase) from the master. Use "git stash apply" to get your stash back. 

"git checkout -f master"     if you think your tree is pretty hopeless, need a kill-and-fill to bring the master into your local repository.

== List the local branch ==
You can now list your local branch by doing
 $ git branch
which should ouput
 $ git branch
 * master

== List your local non committed changes ==
 $ git status | less

== Commit ==
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>


== List your commits ==
 $ git log


== Keeping your local working branch in sync ==
 $ git pull --rebase

To shorten up that command type
$ git config --global alias.up "pull --rebase"

Now you can just type:
$ git up

== Use a graphical interface ==
 $ gitk          # Tree Browser
 $ qgit          # Tree Browser
 $ git-gui       # Commit/push/... editor

== Submitting patches to the vlc-devel ==
If you have been developing on vlc locally and (still) don't have write access, you can submit all your commit in one shot using:
 $ (rm -R patches &&) git format-patch -o patches && git-send-email --compose patches
which will produce the patches for each local commit in the directory "patches" and send them.

= Advanced usage =
== Creating a secondary local branch ==
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
Which could be summarized by:
 $ git checkout -b mywork

Then do some commit on it... And you can go back to your original master branch by doing:
 $ git checkout master

== Fetching a remote branch ==
To see the remote branch use:
 $ git branch -r
If the remote branch is named 0.8.6-bugfix
 $ git branch 0.8.6-bugfix origin/0.8.6-bugfix 
 Branch 0.8.6-bugfix set up to track remote branch refs/remotes/origin/0.8.6-bugfix.
 $ git branch
  0.8.6-bugfix
  * master
To checkout that branch use:
 $ git checkout 0.8.6-bugfix
To stay up-to-date a simple
 $ git pull --rebase
Should be enough.

== Creating a remote branch ==
If the new remote branch is named 0.9.0-bugfix, and is based on the local master branch.
First make sure everything go as planned with the --dry-run option:
 $ git push --dry-run origin master:refs/heads/0.9.0-stable
 To git@git.videolan.org:vlc.git
 * [new branch]      master -> 0.9.0-stable

Then push it:
 $ git push origin master:refs/heads/0.9.0-stable
 To git@git.videolan.org:vlc.git
 * [new branch]      master -> 0.9.0-stable
 $ git branch -r
  origin/0.9.0-stable
  origin/master

To checkout that branch now see ''Fetching a remote branch''

== Revert your non-committed local changes ==
 $ git checkout -f

==Edit or undo not yet pushed commits ==
This will undo the last commit
 $ git reset HEAD^
which is the same as
 $ git reset master^
(if you are checked-out copy of your tree is master)
And also the same as
 $ git reset a44a594 # note that there is no need to use the full sha id

If you have a stack of patch that you have not yet committed you can delete one patch from the list using git rebase --interactive
 $ git rebase --interactive origin
  pick eacf185 test
  pick 56322eb VLMA owner is vlma prod.
 
  # Rebase 826757e..56322eb onto 826757e
  #
  # Commands:
  #  pick = use commit
  #  edit = use commit, but stop for amending
  #  squash = use commit, but meld into previous commit

== Diff-ing ==
* You can diff between two branches using
 $ git diff branch1 branch2
* You can diff between the previous 10th commit and current using
 $ git diff HEAD~10 HEAD
* You can diff between the previous 10th commit and current of the branch "mywork" using
 $ git diff mywork~10 mywork
* Imagine that git log is like
 $ git log
 commit e0394f269305edd09843257e7c1d1a66aaf48ab3
 Author: jb <jb>
 Date:   Fri Apr 13 07:14:48 2007 +0000
    qt4 - Mousewheel (2)
 commit e80b339081aa6755f67c9bd8e2aacf93a9a79d95
 [..]
 commit ff7004b70fd239e4120deb160e2991bd5237b8df
 [..]
 commit a44a594898f981a145cfcace5f16f8973f9eb46f
 [..]
 commit 690df705c963cf6bf6f5746d54bc97a85ff91919
 [..]
 commit 679f8b1c3e0baa469efa970588b95a625c595d64
 [..]

 $ git diff a44a594898f981a145cfcace5f16f8973f9eb46f~2 e80b339081aa6755f67c9bd8e2aacf93a9a79d95
Will be equivalent to:
 $ git diff ff7004b70fd239e4120deb160e2991bd5237b8df e80b339081aa6755f67c9bd8e2aacf93a9a79d95
And to:
 $ git diff HEAD~4 HEAD^

* Remember that to produce a patch you should rather use git-format-patch than git-diff most of the time.

== Tracking regression ==
git has a great tool called [http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-bisect.html git-bisect] to help you to track a faulty commit. Imagine you are tracking a bug that is known to appear after 0.8.6 (assuming 0.8.6 is tagged):
 $ git bisect start
 $ git bisect bad # tell git current version has the bug you are tracking
 $ git bisect good 0.8.6 # tell git 0.8.6 didn't has the bug
And then git will checkout a certain revision, and ask you to test it. And you simply say whether this version has the bug.
If it has the bug:
 $ git bisect bad
if the bug is not present:
 $ git bisect good
And so on by bisection... At the end git will indicate the faulty commit. Most of the time this tool is really efficient to track regression.

If you can provide a script that test the presence of the bug 
 $ git bisect run <script_name>
will be able to track down the regression by itself. See [http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-bisect.html git-bisect Documentation].

= Using Git to push to VideoLAN git =
== Initial requirement ==
* Make sure you've set your name and email in your commits
 $ git config --global user.name "Your Name"
 $ git config --global user.email "me@example.com"

== Convert your tree to use your ssh push commit access ==
 $ vi vlc/.git/config
And replace git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git by git@git.videolan.org:vlc.git

== Staying up to date ==
  $ git pull --rebase

If you don't want to have to type --rebase everytime you pull do:
 $ git config branch.master.rebase true

This one creates a merge object which is not how SVN worked, so let's use the first version...
  $ git pull

== Pushing your work ==
  $ git log origin..master     # Check what you are going to push
  $ git push

= Using Git (and git-svn) to commit on VideoLAN SVN trunk (deprecated, scheduled for deletion) =
== Initial checkout ==
First get the official VLC svn trunk within git
 $ git-svn init svn://your_committer_login@svn.videolan.org/vlc
If you want the full history skip this step:
 $ git-svn fetch -r19800
Now get the get the rest
 $ git-svn fetch
Compress the tree:
 $ git repack -d

== Keeping in sync ==
 $ git-svn fetch
 $ git rebase

== Commit to VLC svn through git-svn ==
Once you've locally committed your changes you should be able to commit them to the remote svn branch by doing:
 $ git-svn dcommit

Note that with git-svn, you'll lost some of the git advantages, and it will probably introduce some overhead in some cases.

= Using Git to publish your work (for SoC student?) =
First get the official VLC '''Soc''' trunk
 $ git clone git://git.videolan.org/vlc-soc.git
 $ cd vlc-soc
Ask for write access to a branch (called your_name_branch). Now we will make git know that you want to publish on this branch
 $ git config remote.my_soc_public_branch.url ssh://your_name@altair.videolan.org/home/videolan/gitroot/vlc-soc.git
Now tell git that you want to automatically push the local master branch to the public your_name_branch:
 $ git config remote.my_soc_public_branch.push +master:your_name_branch # the "+" will tell git to force update ignoring conflicts

Do some work and commit it to your master branch.
 $ git commit -a
You can also sync with the trunk (origin) as needed
 $ git pull --rebase origin
And don't forget to publish your changes:
 $ git push my_soc_public_branch
Now you should be able to see your latest changes in your branch via [http://git.videolan.org/ gitweb].

= Documentation about git =
* [http://git.or.cz/ Official Git Website]
* [http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/tutorial.html Git Tutorial]
* [http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html Switching from SVN to git using cogito]
* [http://wiki.sourcemage.org/Git_Guide Very good Git guide]

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