On Mar 11, 2014, at 1:18 PM, Christopher Maynard <Christopher.Maynard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If possible, add some information/basic steps on a few more topics as well?
> For example:
> 1) How do you undo a commit, or undo part of a commit?
You can reset the head, but I really think going there requires reading the book. :)
> 2) How do you apply someone else's patch for testing before committing?
Gerrit actually shows you what to do on the review web page - in each Patch Set it has a "Download" line, with something like this:
git fetch https://code.wireshark.org/review/wireshark refs/changes/02/602/2 && git checkout FETCH_HEAD
You can copy that and paste it in your shell - though I usually create a local branch to do that in, rather than the detached head state done by that command. So I do this instead:
git fetch https://code.wireshark.org/review/wireshark refs/changes/02/602/2
git checkout -b new-branch-name FETCH_HEAD
> 3) How to backport to other trunks?
That's currently documented in:
http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/Backporting
But that's written from the perspective of someone going through the submission process - not of a core developer doing the cherry-pick.
> 4) How do you know if someone has a fix or not? With subversion, they'd
> indicate they're running svn r51234, for example, and then you could tell
> them that they need to update to at least r52345. With git, how does this
> work with hashes?
That would be good to know - because so far it seems people've been using the first ~6 characters of the commit hashes, but I'm not sure if that's right or not.
-hadriel