Frew's Recommended Workflow

The first time you do this you should make your own fork on github.com.

• go to github.com
• create a new account for yourself
  – follow their instructions to add your SSH key
• go to http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/
• click “fork”
• at your command line, make a checkout:
  git clone git@github.com:[username]/rakudo.git
  and replace “[username]” with your github.com user name
• git remote add upstream git://github.com/rakudo/rakudo.git

Then after that you should use the following process for each feature that you implement.

Note: I recommend not doing anything in the branch except your own work; which means no pulling from upstream.

First make a new branch for the feature

  git co -b array_setting_pop_method

Do some coding

  vi src/setting/Array.pm

Checkin code as often as you’d like

  git status
  git add [files]
  git add [more files]
  git ci -m "commit messages"

When you are done with the feature squash it all into one commit

  git rebase -i origin 
    (or whatever you chose to name of rakudo's remote repo to be)

Push to your repo

  git push frew_origin array_setting_pop_method  
    (again, change this to be your remote repo and your branch)

Go to your branch on github and ask for a pull request (it should be a button near the top) from rakudo

http://github.com/frioux/rakudo/tree/array_pop_squash (frioux is your username, and the last part is the remote name of your branch, hopefully the same as the local branch name)

And that’s basically it. Between features it would be fine to do a pull so that you have the latest code.

  git pull origin master
  git push frew_origin master