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GitHub workflow

If you have never used git or GitHub, you may also need to check Hello World in GitHub Guides.

Firstly, You need to Fork kwatch repository abahmed/kwatch then clone it on your local machine using

git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USER_NAME/kwatch

According to GitHub naming we will call​

  • The repository you have forked origin and its link is https://github.com/YOUR-USER_NAME/kwatch
  • This repository upstream and its link is https://github.com/abahmed/kwatch

The previous steps are done once, then these steps that you should follow every time you work on patch(es) or feature(s):​

  1. Fetch code and create a local branch

    git fetch upstream
    git checkout -b LOCAL_BRANCH_NAME upstream/main

  2. Do your code changes then commit

    git commit -a -m "Issue #ISSUE_NUMBER: BRIEF_DESCRIPTION."

  3. Push commit you have made to your fork

    git push -u origin "LOCAL_BRANCH_NAME"

  4. Create a Pull Request(PR) to the branch main. To notify the reviewer that will review this PR, you can write r? @USER_NAME

  5. After getting reviewers' feedback - if something needs to be changed, added, removed or fixed and these changes are minor (means you didn't get r+, just fix it in a new commit on the same branch

    git commit --fixup SHA1_OF_THE_PREVIOUS_COMMIT (You can get it using **git log**)

  6. Use step 3 to update the Pull Request. Repeat steps 5-6 until the review is accepted.

  7. When you notice that there is a change on upstream that affects your patch or files you have worked on, you need to update and rebase your local branch

    git fetch upstream
    git rebase upstream/main