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 > -- Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske Genode Labs http://www.genode-labs.com · http://genode.org Genode Labs GmbH · Amtsgericht Dresden · HRB 28424 · Sitz Dresden Geschäftsführer: Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske, Christian Helmuth ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ genode-main mailing list genode-main@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/genode-main