Hermes - Git HowTo

• How to test patches posted by someone somewhere
  Let say that David asks you to pull the branch called exodus-II from git://github.com/andrsd/hermes2d.git and review.
  First, add the remote link to David's repo by saying:
  git remote add david git://github.com/andrsd/hermes2d.git
  Then, create in your repo a new local branch where the patches will be tested.
  Assuming that you are in your master branch, type:
  git co -b test-david
  Then, fetch David's repo by typing:
  git fetch david
  Next, merge the branch of interest into your local branch:
  git merge david/exodus-II
  That's it. You can now type "cmake .", "make", and test if everything works.
• How to push into the repository on spilka
  git remote add write spilka.math.unr.edu:/home/git/repos/hermes2d.git
  git push --d write local_branch:master
  check that all is ok and then:
  git push write local_branch:master
  

• How to add a new Git repository to spilka
  0) add the git repo (just the bare git repo) into /home/git/repos:
  git clone --bare name_of_the_new_git_repo.git
  1) visudo # edit the visudo file, add there two more lines for the new
  # git repo, just copy and adapt the lines already there
  2) copy and adapt the hooks/post-update hook. For example:
  cp ../libfemhub.git/hooks/post_update hooks/
  vim hooks/post-update
  and adapt the file to the new repo
  3) touch git-daemon-export-ok
  sh hooks/post-update (not as root)
  if this does not work, then run it as sudo
  4) add a link to /var/cache/git/
  ln -s /home/git/repos/name_of_the_new_repo.git .
  If you want to push in there from any computer, do:
  git remote add write spilka.math.unr.edu:/home/git/repos/name_of_the_new_repo.git