Howto use git with yum
This page contains common git usage commands for working on the git repository.
Checkout yum-utils repository
This will checkout the yum utils repository
git clone ssh://yum.baseurl.org/srv/projects/yum/git/yum-utils.git cd yum-utils
Daily usage
Get updates from remote repository
git pull
If you have made unpublished changes to your local branch since last git pull then use these commands instead to avoid Merge messages in the log
git fetch git rebase origin
Commit changed files (locally)
git commit -a
OR
git commit -a -m "Commit message"
Push changes to remote repository
git push
Add new file
git add file
Work with branches
Show local branches
git branch
Show remote branches
git branch -r
Create a local branch tracking remote branch
Create a local yum-utils-1_0_X branch tracking the remote origin/yum-utils-1_0_X branch and switch to the yum-utils-1_0_X
git checkout --track -b yum-utils-1_0_X origin/yum-utils-1_0_X
Switch to another local branch
Switch to the yum-utils-1_0_X branch
git checkout yum-utils-1_0_X
When you have changed to a local branch there is tracking a remote branch all the daily usage commands will work on that branch.
Switch back to master branch
git checkout master
Create a local branch & switch to the branch
git checkout -b branchname
Change to local branch
git checkout branchname
Push local branch up to public repository
git push origin branchname
Yes, this is backward as hell.
Created a patch with changes from a local branch to master
git checkout mylocalbranch git diff -p master -- . > my-patch.txt
Apply a patch to current local branch
git apply my-patch.txt
Set a tag for a release
git tag -a tagname git push --tags
