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.Dd March 3, 2020
.Dt DEVELOPMENT 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm development
.Nd quick starter for development with the DragonFly codebase
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Dx
uses the
.Xr git 1
distributed revision control system.
If it is not already on the system, it needs to be installed via
.Xr dports 7
.Pa ( devel/git ) .
.Pp
The
.Sx EXAMPLES
section gives initial information to get going with development on
.Dx .
Please refer to the
.Xr git 1
manual pages and other related documents for further information on git's
capabilities and how to use them.
The
.Sx SEE ALSO
section below has some links.
.Pp
For information on how to build the
.Dx
system from source code, see
.Xr build 7 .
For information on how to build the LiveCD, LiveDVD or thumb drive image, see
.Xr release 7 .
.Pp
For a specification of
.Dx Ap s
preferred source code style, refer to
.Xr style 9 .
An
.Xr emacs 1
function to switch C-mode to this style (more or less) can be found in
.Pa /usr/share/misc/dragonfly.el .
For
.Xr vim 1
users, a
.Pa /usr/share/misc/dragonfly.vim
is available.
.Sh EXAMPLES
A fresh copy of the repository can be cloned anywhere.
Note that the directory to clone into
.Pa ( /usr/src
in the following example) must not exist, so all previous work in this
directory has to be saved and the directory be removed prior to cloning.
Also note that while the main repository is on
.Pa crater ,
it is recommended that one of the
.Dx
mirrors be used instead.
.Pp
Simple setup of the local repository is done using
.Pa /usr/Makefile :
.Bd -literal -offset 4n
cd /usr
make help		# get brief help
make src-create		# create the source repository
.Ed
.Pp
Somewhat finer control can be achieved using
.Xr git 1
directly.
To clone the repository and check out the master branch (this will take
some time):
.Bd -literal -offset 4n
cd /usr
git clone -o crater git://crater.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git src
cd src
.Ed
.Pp
The repository can be held up to date by pulling frequently (to set up a
.Xr cron 8
job,
.Xr git 1 Ap s
.Fl Fl git-dir
option can be used):
.Bd -literal -offset 4n
cd /usr/src
git pull
.Ed
.Pp
It is not recommended to work directly in the master branch.
To create and checkout a working branch:
.Bd -literal -offset 4n
git checkout -b work
.Ed
.Pp
To create and checkout a branch of the
.Dx 2.0
release (called
.Sy rel2_0 ) :
.Bd -literal -offset 4n
git checkout -b rel2_0 crater/DragonFly_RELEASE_2_0
.Ed
.Pp
Branches can be deleted just as easy:
.Bd -literal -offset 4n
git branch -d work
.Ed
.Pp
After changes have been made to a branch, they can be committed:
.Bd -literal -offset 4n
git commit -a
.Ed
.Pp
.Xr git-commit 1 Ap s
.Fl m
and
.Fl F
options can be used to specify a commit message on the command line or read
it from a file, respectively.
.Pp
Finally, branches can be merged with the (updated) master by using
.Cm rebase :
.Bd -literal -offset 4n
git checkout master
git pull
git checkout work
git rebase master
.Ed
.Sh VENDOR IMPORTS
When importing vendor sources, make sure that you don't import
too many unnecessary sources.
Especially test suites that are not used by the
.Dx
build are good candidates for being stripped away.
These instructions assume that you have already extracted
the source package into its final directory and trimmed the source
files appropriately.
.Pp
.Em \&Do not change the vendor sources before importing them
on the vendor branch!
Necessary changes to the vendor sources should be applied to the
.Pa master
branch after the import.
.Pp
For the following example, we will import the imaginary package
.Nm foo-2.3
into
.Pa contrib/foo .
If this is the first import of
.Nm foo ,
you will have to choose the name of the vendor branch.
Customarily, this will be
.Pa vendor/FOO .
However, if you intend to maintain multiple vendor sources for the
same package
.Em concurrently ,
you should choose a branch name that includes part of the version, e.g.,
.Pa vendor/FOO2 .
.Pp
First, we need to create an orphan branch (i.e., a new branch with no
history) as the vendor branch:
.Bd -literal -offset 4n
git checkout --orphan vendor/FOO
.Ed
.Pp
Then we remove the previous content because the vendor branch will only
contain the vendor sources to be imported:
.Bd -literal -offset 4n
git rm -rf .
.Ed
.Pp
Next, move the prepared vendor sources to the destination, i.e.,
.Pa contrib/foo .
Then we perform the import:
.Bd -literal -offset 4n
git add contrib/foo
git commit -m "Import foo-2.3 on the vendor branch"
.Ed
.Pp
Next, we merge the vendor branch into
.Pa master :
.Bd -literal -offset 4n
git checkout master
git merge --allow-unrelated-histories vendor/FOO
.Ed
.Pp
Now you are free to change the sources in
.Pa contrib/foo ,
since you are back to the
.Pa master
branch.
The first thing to do is to add
.Pa README.DRAGONFLY
and
.Pa README.DELETED .
The former documents how the imported sources can be obtained, including
basic information (e.g., version, date, checksum) of the source package.
The latter lists all files and directories that have been removed from the
source package.
You should use the
.Pa /usr/src/tools/tools/genreadmedeleted/genreadmedeleted
shell script to generate this file.
Commit the
.Pa README Ns s
first:
.Bd -literal -offset 4n
git add contrib/foo/README.D*
git commit -m "foo: add our READMEs"
.Ed
.Pp
And then commit your local changes to the sources.
Finally, push
.Pa master
and the vendor branch to the upstream:
.Bd -literal -offset 4n
git push crater master vendor/FOO
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr git 1 Pq Pa devel/git ,
.Xr build 7 ,
.Xr committer 7 ,
.Xr release 7
.Rs
.%T "Documentation on git's page"
.%U "http://git-scm.com/documentation"
.Re
.Rs
.%T "Git Magic"
.%U "http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/"
.Re
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
manual page was originally written by
.An Matthew Dillon Aq Mt dillon@FreeBSD.org
and first appeared
in
.Fx 5.0 ,
December 2002.
It was rewritten when
.Dx
switched to
.Xr git 1 .