Git Notes

Bring Local Branch Upstream

We have a local branch, the-branch that we want to push to our upstream repo.

$ git push -u git@github.com:jfasch/jfasch-home.git the-branch

Create Remote Tracking Branch

$ git clone git@github.com:jfasch/jfasch-home.git
$ git checkout --track origin/the-branch

Create, Submit, Apply Patches

$ git format-patch -o dir branch-von-wo
$ git format-patch -o dir --root         # since beginning of project
$ git send-email --compose dir
$ git send-email --compose /tmp/libgpiod --from jf@faschingbauer.co.at --to jf@faschingbauer.co.at -cc joerg.faschingbauer@aon.at master

Single commit: -1

Miscellaneous

• repo am server, initial push

  • On server $ git init –bare blah.git

  • Client, one possibility $ git push –set-upstream ssh://jfasch.no-ip.biz/share/homes/Joerg/SVN-Repositories/blah.git master

  • Client, other possibility (Github recommendation) $ git remote add origin git@github.com:jfasch/jf-kernel-course.git $ git push -u origin master

• Remote in lokalen Branch

  git remote add <my-remote-name> <repo> git fetch <myremote-name> git checkout -b <my-branch> <my-remote-name>/<remote-branch>

• remote branches

  git remote add orig-work ~/work/non-vc/STIA.git git remote -v git fetch orig-work

  Create tracking branch:

  git checkout -b my-rpi-3.12.y remotes/raspberry/rpi-3.12.y