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<a name="SEC_Top"></a>
<h1 class="settitle">Using git to develop Libav</h1>

<a name="SEC_Contents"></a>
<h1>Table of Contents</h1>
<div class="contents">

<ul class="toc">
  <li><a name="toc-Introduction" href="#Introduction">1. Introduction</a></li>
  <li><a name="toc-Basics-Usage" href="#Basics-Usage">2. Basics Usage</a>
  <ul class="toc">
    <li><a name="toc-Get-GIT" href="#Get-GIT">2.1 Get GIT</a></li>
    <li><a name="toc-Cloning-the-source-tree" href="#Cloning-the-source-tree">2.2 Cloning the source tree</a></li>
    <li><a name="toc-Updating-the-source-tree-to-the-latest-revision" href="#Updating-the-source-tree-to-the-latest-revision">2.3 Updating the source tree to the latest revision</a></li>
    <li><a name="toc-Rebasing-your-local-branches" href="#Rebasing-your-local-branches">2.4 Rebasing your local branches</a></li>
    <li><a name="toc-Adding_002fremoving-files_002fdirectories" href="#Adding_002fremoving-files_002fdirectories">2.5 Adding/removing files/directories</a></li>
    <li><a name="toc-Showing-modifications" href="#Showing-modifications">2.6 Showing modifications</a></li>
    <li><a name="toc-Inspecting-the-changelog" href="#Inspecting-the-changelog">2.7 Inspecting the changelog</a></li>
    <li><a name="toc-Checking-source-tree-status" href="#Checking-source-tree-status">2.8 Checking source tree status</a></li>
    <li><a name="toc-Committing" href="#Committing">2.9 Committing</a></li>
    <li><a name="toc-Preparing-a-patchset" href="#Preparing-a-patchset">2.10 Preparing a patchset</a></li>
    <li><a name="toc-Sending-patches-for-review" href="#Sending-patches-for-review">2.11 Sending patches for review</a></li>
    <li><a name="toc-Renaming_002fmoving_002fcopying-files-or-contents-of-files" href="#Renaming_002fmoving_002fcopying-files-or-contents-of-files">2.12 Renaming/moving/copying files or contents of files</a></li>
  </ul></li>
  <li><a name="toc-Git-configuration" href="#Git-configuration">3. Git configuration</a>
  <ul class="toc">
    <li><a name="toc-Personal-Git-installation" href="#Personal-Git-installation">3.1 Personal Git installation</a></li>
    <li><a name="toc-Repository-configuration" href="#Repository-configuration">3.2 Repository configuration</a></li>
  </ul></li>
  <li><a name="toc-Libav-specific" href="#Libav-specific">4. Libav specific</a>
  <ul class="toc">
    <li><a name="toc-Reverting-broken-commits" href="#Reverting-broken-commits">4.1 Reverting broken commits</a></li>
    <li><a name="toc-Pushing-changes-to-remote-trees" href="#Pushing-changes-to-remote-trees">4.2 Pushing changes to remote trees</a></li>
    <li><a name="toc-Finding-a-specific-svn-revision" href="#Finding-a-specific-svn-revision">4.3 Finding a specific svn revision</a></li>
  </ul></li>
  <li><a name="toc-pre_002dpush-checklist" href="#pre_002dpush-checklist">5. pre-push checklist</a></li>
  <li><a name="toc-Server-Issues" href="#Server-Issues">6. Server Issues</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

<a name="Introduction"></a>
<h1 class="chapter"><a href="git-howto.html#toc-Introduction">1. Introduction</a></h1>

<p>This document aims in giving some quick references on a set of useful git
commands. You should always use the extensive and detailed documentation
provided directly by git:
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git --help
man git
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>shows you the available subcommands,
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git &lt;command&gt; --help
man git-&lt;command&gt;
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>shows information about the subcommand &lt;command&gt;.
</p>
<p>Additional information could be found on the
<a href="http://gitref.org">Git Reference</a> website
</p>
<p>For more information about the Git project, visit the
</p>
<p><a href="http://git-scm.com/">Git website</a>
</p>
<p>Consult these resources whenever you have problems, they are quite exhaustive.
</p>
<p>What follows now is a basic introduction to Git and some Libav-specific
guidelines to ease the contribution to the project
</p>
<a name="Basics-Usage"></a>
<h1 class="chapter"><a href="git-howto.html#toc-Basics-Usage">2. Basics Usage</a></h1>

<a name="Get-GIT"></a>
<h2 class="section"><a href="git-howto.html#toc-Get-GIT">2.1 Get GIT</a></h2>

<p>You can get git from <a href="http://git-scm.com/">http://git-scm.com/</a>
Most distribution and operating system provide a package for it.
</p>

<a name="Cloning-the-source-tree"></a>
<h2 class="section"><a href="git-howto.html#toc-Cloning-the-source-tree">2.2 Cloning the source tree</a></h2>

<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git clone git://git.libav.org/libav.git &lt;target&gt;
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>This will put the Libav sources into the directory <var>&lt;target&gt;</var>.
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git clone git@git.libav.org:libav.git &lt;target&gt;
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>This will put the Libav sources into the directory <var>&lt;target&gt;</var> and let
you push back your changes to the remote repository.
</p>
<p>Make sure that you do not have Windows line endings in your checkouts,
otherwise you may experience spurious compilation failures. One way to
achieve this is to run
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git config --global core.autocrlf false
</pre></td></tr></table>


<a name="Updating-the-source-tree-to-the-latest-revision"></a>
<h2 class="section"><a href="git-howto.html#toc-Updating-the-source-tree-to-the-latest-revision">2.3 Updating the source tree to the latest revision</a></h2>

<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git pull (--rebase)
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>pulls in the latest changes from the tracked branch. The tracked branch
can be remote. By default the master branch tracks the branch master in
the remote origin.
</p>
<div class="float alert alert-warning">
<p>Since merge commits are forbidden <code>--rebase</code> (see below) is recommended.
</p></div>
<a name="Rebasing-your-local-branches"></a>
<h2 class="section"><a href="git-howto.html#toc-Rebasing-your-local-branches">2.4 Rebasing your local branches</a></h2>

<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git pull --rebase
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>fetches the changes from the main repository and replays your local commits
over it. This is required to keep all your local changes at the top of
Libav&rsquo;s master tree. The master tree will reject pushes with merge commits.
</p>

<a name="Adding_002fremoving-files_002fdirectories"></a>
<h2 class="section"><a href="git-howto.html#toc-Adding_002fremoving-files_002fdirectories">2.5 Adding/removing files/directories</a></h2>

<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git add [-A] &lt;filename/dirname&gt;
git rm [-r] &lt;filename/dirname&gt;
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>GIT needs to get notified of all changes you make to your working
directory that makes files appear or disappear.
Line moves across files are automatically tracked.
</p>

<a name="Showing-modifications"></a>
<h2 class="section"><a href="git-howto.html#toc-Showing-modifications">2.6 Showing modifications</a></h2>

<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git diff &lt;filename(s)&gt;
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>will show all local modifications in your working directory as unified diff.
</p>

<a name="Inspecting-the-changelog"></a>
<h2 class="section"><a href="git-howto.html#toc-Inspecting-the-changelog">2.7 Inspecting the changelog</a></h2>

<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git log &lt;filename(s)&gt;
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>You may also use the graphical tools like gitview or gitk or the web
interface available at http://git.libav.org/
</p>
<a name="Checking-source-tree-status"></a>
<h2 class="section"><a href="git-howto.html#toc-Checking-source-tree-status">2.8 Checking source tree status</a></h2>

<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git status
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>detects all the changes you made and lists what actions will be taken in case
of a commit (additions, modifications, deletions, etc.).
</p>

<a name="Committing"></a>
<h2 class="section"><a href="git-howto.html#toc-Committing">2.9 Committing</a></h2>

<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git diff --check
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>to double check your changes before committing them to avoid trouble later
on. All experienced developers do this on each and every commit, no matter
how small.
Every one of them has been saved from looking like a fool by this many times.
It&rsquo;s very easy for stray debug output or cosmetic modifications to slip in,
please avoid problems through this extra level of scrutiny.
</p>
<p>For cosmetics-only commits you should get (almost) empty output from
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git diff -w -b &lt;filename(s)&gt;
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>Also check the output of
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git status
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>to make sure you don&rsquo;t have untracked files or deletions.
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git add [-i|-p|-A] &lt;filenames/dirnames&gt;
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>Make sure you have told git your name and email address
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git config --global user.name &quot;My Name&quot;
git config --global user.email my@email.invalid
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>Use <var>&ndash;global</var> to set the global configuration for all your git checkouts.
</p>
<p>Git will select the changes to the files for commit. Optionally you can use
the interactive or the patch mode to select hunk by hunk what should be
added to the commit.
</p>

<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git commit
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>Git will commit the selected changes to your current local branch.
</p>
<p>You will be prompted for a log message in an editor, which is either
set in your personal configuration file through
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git config --global core.editor
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>or set by one of the following environment variables:
<var>GIT_EDITOR</var>, <var>VISUAL</var> or <var>EDITOR</var>.
</p>
<p>Log messages should be concise but descriptive. Explain why you made a change,
what you did will be obvious from the changes themselves most of the time.
Saying just &quot;bug fix&quot; or &quot;10l&quot; is bad. Remember that people of varying skill
levels look at and educate themselves while reading through your code. Don&rsquo;t
include filenames in log messages, Git provides that information.
</p>
<p>Possibly make the commit message have a terse, descriptive first line, an
empty line and then a full description. The first line will be used to name
the patch by git format-patch.
</p>
<a name="Preparing-a-patchset"></a>
<h2 class="section"><a href="git-howto.html#toc-Preparing-a-patchset">2.10 Preparing a patchset</a></h2>

<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git format-patch &lt;commit&gt; [-o directory]
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>will generate a set of patches for each commit between <var>&lt;commit&gt;</var> and
current <var>HEAD</var>. E.g.
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git format-patch origin/master
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>will generate patches for all commits on current branch which are not
present in upstream.
A useful shortcut is also
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git format-patch -n
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>which will generate patches from last <var>n</var> commits.
By default the patches are created in the current directory.
</p>
<a name="Sending-patches-for-review"></a>
<h2 class="section"><a href="git-howto.html#toc-Sending-patches-for-review">2.11 Sending patches for review</a></h2>

<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git send-email &lt;commit list|directory&gt;
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>will send the patches created by <code>git format-patch</code> or directly
generates them. All the email fields can be configured in the global/local
configuration or overridden by command line.
Note that this tool must often be installed separately (e.g. <var>git-email</var>
package on Debian-based distros).
</p>

<a name="Renaming_002fmoving_002fcopying-files-or-contents-of-files"></a>
<h2 class="section"><a href="git-howto.html#toc-Renaming_002fmoving_002fcopying-files-or-contents-of-files">2.12 Renaming/moving/copying files or contents of files</a></h2>

<p>Git automatically tracks such changes, making those normal commits.
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">mv/cp path/file otherpath/otherfile
git add [-A] .
git commit
</pre></td></tr></table>


<a name="Git-configuration"></a>
<h1 class="chapter"><a href="git-howto.html#toc-Git-configuration">3. Git configuration</a></h1>

<p>In order to simplify a few workflows, it is advisable to configure both
your personal Git installation and your local Libav repository.
</p>
<a name="Personal-Git-installation"></a>
<h2 class="section"><a href="git-howto.html#toc-Personal-Git-installation">3.1 Personal Git installation</a></h2>

<p>Add the following to your &lsquo;<tt>~/.gitconfig</tt>&rsquo; to help <code>git send-email</code>
and <code>git format-patch</code> detect renames:
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">[diff]
        renames = copy
</pre></td></tr></table>

<a name="Repository-configuration"></a>
<h2 class="section"><a href="git-howto.html#toc-Repository-configuration">3.2 Repository configuration</a></h2>

<p>In order to have <code>git send-email</code> automatically send patches
to the libav-devel mailing list, add the following stanza
to &lsquo;<tt>/path/to/libav/repository/.git/config</tt>&rsquo;:
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">[sendemail]
        to = libav-devel@libav.org
</pre></td></tr></table>

<a name="Libav-specific"></a>
<h1 class="chapter"><a href="git-howto.html#toc-Libav-specific">4. Libav specific</a></h1>

<a name="Reverting-broken-commits"></a>
<h2 class="section"><a href="git-howto.html#toc-Reverting-broken-commits">4.1 Reverting broken commits</a></h2>

<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git reset &lt;commit&gt;
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p><code>git reset</code> will uncommit the changes till <var>&lt;commit&gt;</var> rewriting
the current branch history.
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git commit --amend
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>allows to amend the last commit details quickly.
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git rebase -i origin/master
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>will replay local commits over the main repository allowing to edit, merge
or remove some of them in the process.
</p>
<div class="float alert alert-info">
<p><code>git reset</code>, <code>git commit --amend</code> and <code>git rebase</code>
rewrite history, so you should use them ONLY on your local or topic branches.
The main repository will reject those changes.
</p></div>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git revert &lt;commit&gt;
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p><code>git revert</code> will generate a revert commit. This will not make the
faulty commit disappear from the history.
</p>
<a name="Pushing-changes-to-remote-trees"></a>
<h2 class="section"><a href="git-howto.html#toc-Pushing-changes-to-remote-trees">4.2 Pushing changes to remote trees</a></h2>

<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git push
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>Will push the changes to the default remote (<var>origin</var>).
Git will prevent you from pushing changes if the local and remote trees are
out of sync. Refer to and to sync the local tree.
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git remote add &lt;name&gt; &lt;url&gt;
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>Will add additional remote with a name reference, it is useful if you want
to push your local branch for review on a remote host.
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git push &lt;remote&gt; &lt;refspec&gt;
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>Will push the changes to the <var>&lt;remote&gt;</var> repository.
Omitting <var>&lt;refspec&gt;</var> makes <code>git push</code> update all the remote
branches matching the local ones.
</p>
<a name="Finding-a-specific-svn-revision"></a>
<h2 class="section"><a href="git-howto.html#toc-Finding-a-specific-svn-revision">4.3 Finding a specific svn revision</a></h2>

<p>Since version 1.7.1 git supports <var>:/foo</var> syntax for specifying commits
based on a regular expression. see man gitrevisions
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git show :/'as revision 23456'
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>will show the svn changeset <var>r23456</var>. With older git versions searching in
the <code>git log</code> output is the easiest option (especially if a pager with
search capabilities is used).
This commit can be checked out with
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git checkout -b svn_23456 :/'as revision 23456'
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>or for git &lt; 1.7.1 with
</p>
<table><tr><td>&nbsp;</td><td><pre class="example">git checkout -b svn_23456 $SHA1
</pre></td></tr></table>

<p>where <var>$SHA1</var> is the commit hash from the <code>git log</code> output.
</p>

<a name="pre_002dpush-checklist"></a>
<h1 class="chapter"><a href="git-howto.html#toc-pre_002dpush-checklist">5. pre-push checklist</a></h1>

<p>Once you have a set of commits that you feel are ready for pushing,
work through the following checklist to doublecheck everything is in
proper order. This list tries to be exhaustive. In case you are just
pushing a typo in a comment, some of the steps may be unnecessary.
Apply your common sense, but if in doubt, err on the side of caution.
</p>
<p>First make sure your Git repository is on a branch that is a direct
descendant of the Libav master branch, which is the only one from which
pushing to Libav is possible. Then run the following command:
</p>
<ul>
<li> <code>git log --patch --stat origin/master..</code>

<p>to make sure that only the commits you want to push are pending, that
the log messages of the commits are correct and descriptive and contain
no cruft from <code>git am</code> and to doublecheck that the commits you
want to push really only contain the changes they are supposed to contain.
</p>
</li><li> <code>git status</code>

<p>to ensure no local changes still need to be committed and that no local
changes may have thrown off the results of your testing.
</p></li></ul>

<p>Next let the code pass through a full run of our testsuite. Before you do,
the command <code>make fate-rsync</code> will update the test samples. Changes
to the samples set are not very common and commits depending on samples
changes are delayed for at least 24 hours to allow the new samples to
propagate, so updating it once per day is sufficient.  Now execute
</p>
<ul>
<li> <code>make distclean</code>
</li><li> <code>/path/to/libav/configure</code>
</li><li> <code>make check</code>
</li></ul>

<p>While the test suite covers a wide range of possible problems, it is not
a panacea. Do not hesitate to perform any other tests necessary to convince
yourself that the changes you are about to push actually work as expected.
</p>
<p>Also note that every single commit should pass the test suite, not just
the result of a series of patches. So if you have a series of commits
to push, run the test suite on every single commit.
</p>
<p>Give other developers a reasonable amount of time to look at and review
patches before you push them. Not everybody is online 24/7, but may wish
to look at and comment on a patch nonetheless. The time you leave depends
on the urgency and complexity of the patch. Use your common sense to pick
a timeframe that allows everybody that you think may wish to comment
and/or should comment on the change an opportunity to see it.
</p>
<p>Finally, after pushing, mark all patches as committed on
<a href="http://patches.libav.org/">patchwork</a>.
Sometimes this is not automatically done when a patch has been
slightly modified from the version on the mailing list.
Also update previous incarnations of the patches you push so that
patchwork is not cluttered with cruft.
</p>

<a name="Server-Issues"></a>
<h1 class="chapter"><a href="git-howto.html#toc-Server-Issues">6. Server Issues</a></h1>

<p>Contact the project admins <a href="mailto:git@libav.org">git@libav.org</a> if you have technical
problems with the GIT server.
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