Re: Use of git in IPFire

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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Hello,

> On 31 Mar 2021, at 13:24, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On 22/03/2021 14:45, Michael Tremer wrote:
>> Hey,
>>> On 22 Mar 2021, at 11:52, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Michael,
>>> 
>>> On 22/03/2021 12:19, Michael Tremer wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I merged it, because we need Git for development purposes.
>>>> I am writing CGI scripts on the systems and commit small changes. Copying files back and forth would be error-prone and waste time.
>>> That makes it clear what git is being used for. I am definitely following the copying files back and forth approach when I am working on some of the bugs and have found sometimes that I have had to start all over again because of errors. Makes sense to use git for managing that for the development work.
>> I love git. I am getting confused if I am editing files that are not part of a Git repository :)
> When you use git on an IPFire system for evaluating changes, do you create a local repository on the system that holds all the changes you do? If yes then at what level do you have the repository. I would thing / (root) would be too high with all sorts of weird files in /dev and /proc that you don't want to track. Or do you create a new repository at an appropriate location for the editing work you are planning to do.

I just check out git://git.ipfire.org/ipfire-2.x.git and check in any CGI scripts which I then push to the server to copy over to my actual build machine. This is something I find more comfortable than using a remote editor if that makes sense.

-Michael

> Thanks for any help/advice on this.
> 
> Regards,
> Adolf.