Git

Local Clone of a Google Code Repository for Internal Use

Motivation

• Advait thinks it might be good for people in lab to be able to push to and pull from a non-google computer that has a clone of gt-ros-pkg
• The goal would be to use this as an internal git repository with the option of pushing to gt-ros-pkg hosted on google.com when code is ready to be publicly downloadable.

Steps

Create bare git repository on internal git server

1. ssh skynet.hsi.gatech.edu -lmycroft
2. mkdir internal_git_bare
3. cd internal_git_bare
4. Clone gt-ros-pkg with advait as the user on skynet.hsi.gatech.edu:
   git clone https://advaitjain@code.google.com/p/gt-ros-pkg.hrl/
5. Convert to a bare repository using steps from here:
   1. cd gt-ros-pkg.hrl/
   2. git config --bool core.bare true
   3. mv .git/ ../
   4. rm -rf *
   5. mv ../.git/ .
6. create an internal_hrl branch:
   git branch internal_hrl
7. change default branch to internal_hrl:
   git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/internal_hrl
   • this is the only branch that we should use from the internal server.

Clone from the internal server

1. cd to whichever directory you want to keep your repo in. (e.g. cd ~/git)
2. git clone mycroft@skynet.hsi.gatech.edu:/home/mycroft/internal_git_bare/gt-ros-pkg.hrl
3. git checkout --track origin/internal_hrl
   • now you will see two branches (master and internal_hrl)
   • usually Advait would expect people to work in the internal_hrl branch

Add a remote branch to work directly with the google code repository

1. git remote add -f gt-ros-pkg.hrl_google_code https://code.google.com/p/gt-ros-pkg.hrl/
2. git checkout -b google_code_master gt-ros-pkg.hrl_google_code/master

To release code

1. git checkout google_code_master
2. git checkout internal_hrl <path to files to release>
   • got this command from here and here.
   • this will get the files that we want to release, but the history will not be available in the public repository. It will still be available in the internal repository.
3. git commit -a
   • type in some descriptive release message.
4. git checkout internal_hrl
   • switch back to the internal_hrl branch
5. ssh to skynet and push to google code.

Getting a single folder from svn

• clone just that folder into a separate git repository.
• then merge this new git repository into gt-ros-pkg.hrl using these instructions.