On 2024-04-19 12:51, Colin Campbell - cpkc.music(a)shaw.ca wrote:
I see that developers have branches on gitlab, showing as >
origin/dev//username/; I gather that this is The Way It's Done®, but I
can't find direction in CG as to how to create such a branch. Is it
as simple as, e.g. git push -u origin dev/cpkc/ottava?
During my time in last summer's GSoC, Carl (as my mentor) discussed
with everyone whether dev/ branches should still be used, or personal
repository forks were performed. It seems that most developers were on
board with the latter option, but I'm not sure if that's still the
preferred way or not since the end of my GSoC project as I haven't
been as active. See
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2023-05/msg00054.html
Any guidance (and patience as I fumble through the process!) will be
gratefully received, and I'll probably propose updates to the CG to
capture your help.
It should be as simple as creating your local personal branch from the
main branch (`git checkout -b cpkc/ottava` while in main branch), then
pushing to that desired remote repository (your git command is correct).
If creating a personal GitLab fork of the repository is still the
preferred way, then I suggest naming your personal GitLab fork remote
name as the origin one, and the official repository as "upstream." So
you can pull/fetch from "upstream", then push to origin. I even make
sure I accidentally don't push to "upstream" with `git remote set-url
--push upstream NULL`.
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- Jason Yip