Page History

...

Using

Creating a personal fork

The first step in the Skara workflow is to To create a personal fork of an existing OpenJDK repository. To create personal fork

$ git fork https://github.com/openjdk/<REPO>

upstream repository, run the command git fork <URL>. For example, to create a personal fork of the jdk repository, run:

$ git fork https://github.com/openjdk/jdk

The above command git fork will also clone your personal fork to a local repository on your computer.

...

Publish a

...

local branch

To publish a local branch to a remote repository, run the following command:

$ git publish

Creating a pull request

To create a pull request first create a create a pull request first create a personal fork, then create a local branch in the local clone of your personal fork:

$ git checkout -b JDK-8123456

Do your work and then create a commit:

$ git commit -m "Fixed a race condition"

Finally create your pull request. Make changes to a number of files, then create a commit. Publish your local branch and then create a pull request from your published branch:

$ git pr create --jcheck --publish

Notes:

• If you want to run jcheck on your changes before the pull request is created, pass the flag --jcheck to git pr create
• If you want the local branch to be published automatically, pass the flag --publish to git pr create