Small correction for the documentation: on pg. 152, "The latter commit is tagged wit the version number." should be changed to "The latter commit is tagged with the version number." It's hard to keep something that big free of typos.

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Norman Feske <norman.feske@...1...> wrote:
Hello Ben,

Christian's very useful references notwithstanding, let me also point
you to Section 5.5 "Git flow" of the "Genode Foundations" book [1]. The
Section describes our typical work flow while using Git.

[1] http://genode.org/documentation/genode-foundations-15-05.pdf

Cheers
Norman

On 05/29/2015 08:54 AM, Christian Helmuth wrote:
> Hello Ben,
>
> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 04:08:53PM +0000, Nobody III wrote:
>> As for working with git/Github, I'm still not very experienced. I've forked
>> Genode and added the lshw output as lshw.log, but I'm not sure where to go
>> from here. I've read some documentation, but I'm still a little confused. I
>> think I can figure things out, but I still have one question that I need an
>> answer to: Can I fork the Genode repository without having to re-download
>> Genode for my fork?
>
> First, I would recommend to read a good and pragmatic book about Git
> like https://progit.org/ This helps to get the fundamentals of the
> decentralized approach (repositories, clones, branches, working
> directories, topic branches) and also enough hands-on to get started.
> Further, you should make yourself familiar with the "Centralized
> repository with topic branches" work flow as we use it for Genode. See
> http://git-scm.com/docs/gitworkflows or
> http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Distributed-Git-Distributed-Workflows.
> Please don't recoil from creating a scratch repo at GitHub to test
> what you learned.
>
> After that your questions above should be answered already. If not
> don't hesitate to join some public forum about Git and ask the experts
> there.
>
> Regards
>


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