Git/Workflow/Stage
Introduction
Our Topic Stage repositories provide a central staging area for topic branches under development. Unlike an official repository a topic stage may have any number of branches. Developers are free to create, update, and delete topics in the stage through Git's ssh protocol.
Tutorial
Initial Setup
Add a remote called "stage" to refer to the topic stage:
$ git remote add stage git://public.kitware.com/stage/repo.git $ git config remote.stage.pushurl git@public.kitware.com:stage/repo.git
One may fetch from the stage at any time:
$ git fetch stage --prune
Use the "--prune" option to remove local references to remote topic branches that have been deleted.
Staging a Topic
| Actions | Results | Troubleshooting |
|---|---|---|
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Create a local topic branch and develop on it. Here we use the placeholder topic-name for the branch name. | ||
...o----o master,
^ *topic-name
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...o----o master
\
o----o *topic-name
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When the topic is ready for publication push it to the stage.
Pushing | ||
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...o----o master, stage/master
\
o----o *topic-name, stage/topic-name
| |
Viewing all Topics
| Actions | Results | Troubleshooting | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Print the current stage topic table: | |||
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...o----o stage/master
. \ \
. \ o----o stage/topic-name
. \
. o----o stage/other-topic
. \
........o stage/next
| ||
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Each row represents one topic. The first column names the topic, the rest name each integration branch with a 0 or 1 indicating whether it can reach the topic. | |||
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One may also get machine-readable output:
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Merging a Topic
| Actions | Results | Troubleshooting |
|---|---|---|
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Tell the stage to merge the topic into next. It automatically computes a merge commit based on the latest upstream next. | ||
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...o----o stage/master
. \ \
. \ o----o stage/topic-name
. \ \
. o----o \ stage/other-topic
. \ \
........o----o stage/next
| |
