For a quick introduction to git concepts I found Git for Computer
Scientists [1] to also be quite helpful. It assumes you have a basic
working knowledge of things like Directed Acyclic Graphs but it gives
a good understanding of the underlying algorithms and is much shorter
than Pro Git.
[1] http://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Bálint Réczey <balint@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2014-02-26 10:30 GMT+01:00 Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 09:51:13AM +0100, Joerg Mayer wrote:
>>> I sent the sample workflow for two reasons:
>>> 1) Receive feedback whether I did something "stupid" (aka newbie error)
>>> 2) Start creating a little bit of help for newbies
>>
>> Attached a revised version on how I'd like to go forward. The quicker we
>> have the workflows the less time consuming things are going to get for
>> others :-)
>>
>> Ciao
>> Jörg
>>
>>
>> This idea of the file is to collect example workflows to make
>> it easier getting started with git/gerrit.
> From my experience (giving trainings on git/gerrit and observing other
> trainers and trainees) the most efficient way of learning Git + Gerrit based
> collaboration is reading Pro Git [1] then the Gerrit intro [2] . This is what
> is suggested by our WorkFlow page [3].
>
> Other means like trying to start with incomplete, examples-based
> quick-intros gave early satisfaction and long struggling to many people
> I could observe thanks to misunderstanding or not seeing the concepts
> behind the commands.
>
> Please don't create traps for people less experienced with git/gerrit.
>
> Let me ask this question: After reading through [1] and [2] carefully which
> question(s) arising during contributing to Wireshark remained not answered?
> Those could be good additions to the Q&A section of [3].
>
> Thanks,
> Balint
>
> [1] http://git-scm.com/book
> [2] https://code.wireshark.org/review/Documentation/intro-quick.html
> [3] http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/Workflow
>
>
>>
>> Once we have covered the most important use cases this file should
>> a) be moved to either wiki.wireshark.org or the wsdg
>> b) be enhanced by linking to or including screenshots of the gerrit
>> GUI
>>
>> Please improve this file by adding
>> - ideas to the toc
>> - Filling in items from the toc
>> - corrections/enhancements to existing examples
>>
>> TOC
>> ===
>> - Modify a file, submit change
>> - TODO: Modify a file, submit change, change file then resubmit
>> - TODO: Modify a file, submit change then drop the change
>> - ....
>>
>> Modify a file
>> =============
>> - Create a new branch called 'newsupdate' (git checkout)
>> - Modify ./NEWS (vi)
>> - Check whether there are other changes (git status, optional)
>> - Submit to the local git repository (git commit)
>> - Submit the changes for review (git review)
>> - Review and submit my own change (gerrit review)
>> ["Normal" users: Wait for this to happen]
>> - Switch back to development master (git checkout)
>> - Delete the development branch (git branch)
>>
>> jmayer@egg:~/work/wireshark/git(master)> git checkout -b newsupdate
>> Switched to a new branch 'newsupdate'
>> jmayer@egg:~/work/wireshark/git(newsupdate)> vi NEWS
>> jmayer@egg:~/work/wireshark/git(newsupdate)> git status
>> [...]
>> # modified: NEWS
>> [...]
>> jmayer@egg:~/work/wireshark/git(newsupdate)> git commit -a
>> [newsupdate c159b39] As long as the NEWS file is part of the source distribution it really needs to be updated every time the file docbook/release-notes.asciidoc get changed.
>> 1 file changed, 65 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
>> jmayer@egg:~/work/wireshark/git(newsupdate)> git review
>> remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (2/2)
>> remote: Processing changes: new: 1, refs: 1, done
>> remote:
>> remote: New Changes:
>> remote: https://code.wireshark.org/review/398
>> remote:
>> To ssh://jmayer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:29418/wireshark
>> * [new branch] HEAD -> refs/publish/master/newsupdate
>> jmayer@egg:~/work/wireshark/git(newsupdate)> gerrit review 398,1 --submit --code-review +2
>> jmayer@egg:~/work/wireshark/git(newsupdate)> git checkout master
>> Switched to branch 'master'
>> jmayer@egg:~/work/wireshark/git(master)> git branch -D newsupdate
>> Deleted branch newsupdate (was c159b39).
>>
>> --
>> Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
>> We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
>> works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.
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