๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Git๏ƒ

Essential Git commands๏ƒ

So you have just cloned your fork from GitHub and the first Git command you should try is

$ git branch
* main

Now you want to submit a patch or new feature so you can create a new branch and switch to it by using

$ git checkout -b feature-branch
Switched to a new branch 'feature-branch'

And now the git branch command lists two local branches with the current branch highlighted by the *

$ git branch
* feature-branch
  main

When creating a pull request you need to create a new branch or more technically a feature branch. In the above example the feature-branch is a new branch, but you should try to be more descriptive when naming the new feature branch.

A more verbose version of git branch is

$ git branch -v
* improve-docs-2 3d55e793 Merge pull request #244 from fuchsia-programming/pull-243-restyled
  main         3d55e793 Merge pull request #244 from fuchsia-programming/pull-243-restyled

You can also show the branches in column format

$ git branch --column
* codewars   main

Another way to create a new branch is

git branch test-branch

The difference between using git branch and git checkout -b to create a branch is that git checkout -b will switch to the branch. Running git branch again shows this

$ git branch
* codewars
  main
  test-branch

To checkout a branch you can use git checkout

$ git checkout test-branch
Switched to branch 'test-branch'

Another useful command is git status

$ git status
  On branch docs
  Changes not staged for commit:
    (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
    (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

          modified:   CONTRIBUTING.md

  no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

A very short version of git status is

$  git status -s
M _docs/git.md

You can see your changes with git diff

$ git diff
diff --git a/_data/docs_nav.yml b/_data/docs_nav.yml
index f7abb8fe..54db1374 100644
--- a/_data/docs_nav.yml
+++ b/_data/docs_nav.yml
@@ -15,5 +15,7 @@
       link: /docs/sql-file/
     - title: ๐Ÿ“„ Eclipse cheat sheets (XML) to DITA with Ruby, XSL, Nokogiri
       link: /docs/eclipse-cheat-sheets-to-dita-with-ruby-xsl-nokogiri/
+    - title: ๐Ÿ–จ๏ธ DITA TO PDF WITH ECLIPSE
+      link: /docs/dita-to-pdf-with-eclipse/
     - title: ๐Ÿ”— Links
       link: /docs/links/
diff --git a/_docs/dita-to-pdf-with-eclipse.md b/_docs/dita-to-pdf-with-eclipse.md
index e69de29b..b15f58fc 100644
--- a/_docs/dita-to-pdf-with-eclipse.md
+++ b/_docs/dita-to-pdf-with-eclipse.md
@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+---
+title: DITA TO PDF WITH ECLIPSE
+permalink: /docs/dita-to-pdf-with-eclipse/
+---
+
+# Overview

A very compact version of git diff is

$ git diff --compact-summary
_docs/git.md | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

To only see which files are changed run

$ git diff --name-only
_docs/git.md

The origin and the upstream are displayed below for a GitHub user. You should think of the upstream as the source and the origin as your fork

$ git remote -v
origin  https://github.com/jbampton/fuchsia-programming.github.io.git (fetch)
origin  https://github.com/jbampton/fuchsia-programming.github.io.git (push)
upstream        https://github.com/fuchsia-programming/fuchsia-programming.github.io.git (fetch)
upstream        https://github.com/fuchsia-programming/fuchsia-programming.github.io.git (push)

The git log command is shown below and it contains the history of the past commits

$ git log
commit a5cdeaba94db770797fe84bc8666116a97a06d3f (HEAD -> ruby-cheat-sheets, upstream/main, origin/main, origin/HEAD, main)
Merge: b4e0ff91 08c5dac7
Author: John Bampton <jbampton@users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   Sat Dec 14 08:46:16 2019 +1000

    Merge pull request #240 from fuchsia-programming/pull-239-restyled

    Restyle Add documentation to the website.

commit 08c5dac76558c2ad01e964537c76a31cc9e222b5
Author: Restyled.io <commits@restyled.io>
Date:   Fri Dec 13 22:23:37 2019 +0000

    Restyled by whitespace

A more compact version of git log is seen below

$ git log --oneline
cde978e9 (HEAD -> improve-docs, upstream/main, origin/main, origin/HEAD, main) Merge pull request #242 from fuchsia-programming/pull-241-restyled
17b1d497 Restyled by prettier-markdown
cdfe2158 Add more documentation.
a5cdeaba Merge pull request #240 from fuchsia-programming/pull-239-restyled
08c5dac7 Restyled by whitespace
9c63aff1 Restyled by prettier-yaml
561d38b3 Restyled by prettier-markdown
1b5e30b4 Add documentation to the website.
b4e0ff91 Merge pull request #238 from jbampton/configure-percy
13a2afe3 Add percy config file.
6d1050f7 Merge pull request #237 from fuchsia-programming/pull-236-restyled
fcd730b0 Restyled by whitespace

Once your feature branch has been merged into the upstream you should delete it

git branch -D overcommit
Deleted branch overcommit (was 00e2413).

To list your own local branches, your remote origin branches and all the remote upstream branches

$ git branch -a
  main
* ruby-cheat-sheets
  remotes/origin/HEAD -> origin/main
  remotes/origin/main
  remotes/upstream/main
  remotes/upstream/pull-183-restyled
  remotes/upstream/pull-190-restyled
  remotes/upstream/pull-196-restyled
  remotes/upstream/pull-199-restyled
  remotes/upstream/pull-212-restyled
  remotes/upstream/pull-218-restyled

To list your remote branches

$ git branch -r
  origin/HEAD -> origin/main
  origin/main
  upstream/main
  upstream/pull-183-restyled
  upstream/pull-190-restyled
  upstream/pull-196-restyled
  upstream/pull-199-restyled
  upstream/pull-212-restyled
  upstream/pull-218-restyled

You can edit or amend your previous commit

git commit --amend

You can check your git version

$ git --version
git version 2.21.0 (Apple Git-122.2)

Sync your fork๏ƒ

Refer to the GitHub help article on Syncing a fork.

git checkout main
git fetch upstream
git merge upstream/main
git push

Squashing Commits๏ƒ

You may be asked by a maintainer to squash your commits before it will be merged.

git checkout your-feature-branch
git rebase -i HEAD~n
# n is the number of commits in the pull request.
# Set commits (except the one in the first line) from 'pick' to 'squash', save and quit.
# On the next screen, edit/refine commit messages.
# Save and quit.
git push -f # (force push to GitHub)

Contributor Workflow๏ƒ

To contribute a patch, the workflow is as follows:

  • Fork repository

  • Create topic branch

  • Commit patches

  • Push changes to your fork

  • Create pull request

If a commit references an issue, please add the reference. For example: refs #351 or fixes #123. Using the fixes or closes keywords will cause the applicable issue to be closed when the pull request is merged.