On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 10:51 +0000, H. Hirzel wrote:
> On 12/1/11, laurent laffont <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've managed to make Amber IDE works on IE7. 2 unit tests failing.
> >
> > Now I would like to create pull requests for this stuff (and other
> > improvements on my branch). Someone told me that I should create one branch
> > per functionality I want to submit. How can I do this ? (git newbie)
> >
> > I suppose I need to create a branch that forks Nicolas/master then from
> > that create branches and cherry pick relevant commits from my master branch
> > ?
> I suppose so too.
>
> I'd like as well to see short instructions how to do so.
>
I should warn you that I'm not a git expert :)
There are good resources though:
http://help.github.com/fork-a-repo/https://github.com/blog/120-new-to-git> To get a login on github and to create a branch of Nicolas/master is easy.
> Then to clone it to the local directory of the development macnhine as
> well as it is the same as getting it from Nicolas'.
> But what is the command to send the my local changes back to my github
> repository?
git push does that: git push origin master
> (would be something like "push" in Mercurial)
> And what is the command to resynchronize my branch with what Nicolas
> has done in the meantime?
git fetch nicolas
git merge nicolas/master master
Maybe you'll have to track my repo first:
git remote add nicolas
https://github.com/NicolasPetton/amber.gitCheers,
Nico
>
> --Hannes
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