Use Developer branches

Revision as of 09:47, 16 April 2009

Imagine you want to try out the xfce4-svn branch from developer elangelo. You can see this branch here.

These would be the commands:

• clone the main repository lunar:

 git clone git://lunar-linux.org/lunar/moonbase.git moonbase.git

• pull the xfce4-svn branch from elangelo and at the same time create a local xfce4-svn branch

 cd moonbase.git
 git pull git://lunar-linux.org/elangelo/moonbase.git xfce4-svn:xfce4-svn
 

• switch to the xfce4-svn branch:

 git checkout xfce4-svn

• updating the xfce4-svn branch with latest master (the main repository of moonbase)

 git checkout master
 git pull git://lunar-linux.org/lunar/moonbase.git master
 git checkout xfce4-svn
 git merge master
 lin xfce4

• telling lunar to use the git repository instead of the default (/var/lib/lunar/moonbase) one:

 lunar set MOONBASE /home/samuel/moonbase.git

• you're tired of xfce4-svn and want to try elangelo's xorg branch:

 cd /home/samuel/moonbase.git
 git checkout master
 git pull git://lunar-linux.org/elangelo/moonbase.git xorg:xorg
 git checkout xorg
 git merge master
 lunar renew

• you want to use both xfce4-svn and the xorg branch:

 cd /home/samuel/moonbase.git
 git checkout master
 git branch xfce4-svn_xorg
 git checkout xfce4-svn_xorg
 git merge xorg
 git merge xfce4-svn
 lunar renew

• you are tired of all those branches:

 git checkout master
 git branch -D xfce4-svn
 git branch -D xorg
 git branch -D xfce4-svn_xorg