Developing with GitHub and remote branches

I have recently started contributing using Git by using GitHub for the Firefox OS certification suite.

It has been interestting switching from Mercurial to Git. I honestly believed it would be more straight forward but I have to re-read again and again until the new ways sink in with me.

jgraham shared with me some notes (Thanks!) with regards what his workflow looks like and I want to document it for my own sake and perhaps yours:

git clone git@github.com:mozilla-b2g/fxos-certsuite.git

# Time passes

# To develop something on master
# Pull in all the new commits from master

git fetch origin

# Create a new branch (this will track master from origin,
# which we don't really want, but that will be fixed later)

git checkout -b my_new_thing origin/master

# Edit some stuff

# Stage it and then commit the work

git add -p
git commit -m "New awesomeness"

# Push the work to a remote branch
git push --set-upstream origin HEAD:jgraham/my_new_thing

# Go to the GH UI and start a pull request

# Fix some review issues
git add -p
git commit -m "Fix review issues" # or use --fixup

# Push the new commits
git push

# Finally, the review is accepted
# We could rebase at this point, however,
# we tend to use the Merge button in the GH UI
# Working off a different branch is basically the same,
# but you replace "master" with the name of the branch you are working off.

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This work by Zambrano Gasparnian, Armen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.