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Initial Setup Flow for the Contributor

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Rahul Kunwar edited this page Oct 12, 2018 · 6 revisions

Important information about Git branch in this document

Although most of the contributions typically target the master branch, the actual branch accepting contributions depends on the Vivado release and needs to be checked on this page.

In this document, the Git branch can be refered as master or <branch> but the exact Git branch name should be used for all the Git commands of this document.

1. Setup your github account

The contributor must follow the following steps to setup the GitHub account and prepare the local repository.

  1. Create a github account <USER> from http://www.github.com . For Windows users, download and install git on your machine (GitHub for Windows). For Linux users, a Git client can be downloaded from GitHub if it is not already installed.

  2. Press "Fork"(upper right hand side) and create fork of XilinxBoardStore to your account

    https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo

  3. Switch to a shell on your machine (we recommend GitShell for Windows)

2. Setting Up the Proxy

If you have already cloned the repository then skip this step. Otherwise to pull this repository from within a firewall you will need to configure http.proxy and https.proxy as some company might enforce HTTPS over HTTP. Note this setting may be different for your system. If you have questions contact your IT network administrator:

git config --global https.proxy "<your https-proxy-value e.g - https://proxy:8080>"
git config --global http.proxy "<your http-proxy-value e.g - http://proxy:8080>"

Note: If you are not sure whether a proxy if needed or not, you should first try to clone the Xilinx repository without setting up the proxy. If git cannot connect to GitHub.com, then the proxy needs to be setup.

3. Setting up User Name and Email

#Create and cd to a working directory, for instance ~/github/
mkdir <WORKING_DIR>
cd <WORKING_DIR>
git config --global USER.name <USER>  #github USER name
git config --global USER.email your_email@your_company.com

4. Setting up the Local Repository

Clone the repository you have forked in earlier step. Refer 'Branch-for-Contribution' to choose appropriate branch

On Windows

cd <WORKING_DIR>
mkdir MY_GIT_REPO1
cd MY_GIT_REPO1
git clone https://github.com/<USER>/XilinxBoardStore.git -b <branch>

On Linux

cd <WORKING_DIR>
mkdir MY_GIT_REPO1
cd MY_GIT_REPO1
git clone https://<USER>@github.com/<USER>/XilinxBoardStore.git -b <branch>

You will need to enter your github password when prompted.

Now you have cloned the repo directories under <WORKING_DIR>/MY_GIT_REPO1/XilinxBoardStore

cd \<WORKING_DIR\>/MY_GIT_REPO1/XilinxBoardStore
git status
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