Oak codebase is backed by SVN, not git. The github location is a mirror that could lag hours behind.
Following an example on how to start on a feature named: FEATURE. Where you'll work and commit against your fork on github and eventually produce a patch to be attached to the jira issue or commit it straight to svn (assuming you have rights).
First of all you need to fork the github repo.
# clone your fork (as origin) into ./jackrabbit-oak git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USER/jackrabbit-oak.git cd jackrabbit-oak # Adding the oak GH repo as upstream git remote add upstream https://github.com/apache/jackrabbit-oak.git # take the upstream trunk git fetch upstream git checkout -b upstream-trunk upstream/trunk # take the latest Apache's authors file for git svn curl https://git-wip-us.apache.org/authors.txt -o .git/authors.txt git config svn.authorsfile .git/authors.txt # init git svn git svn init --prefix=upstream/ --tags=tags --trunk=trunk \ --branches=branches \ https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jackrabbit/oak
Now it's possible to start working on a feature branch like this
# Ensure you're in upstream-trunk git checkout upstream-trunk # align with svn git svn rebase # create a new feature branch git checkout -b FEATURE # push it to your fork git push --set-upstream origin FEATURE
Now the work can be carried out easily on the feature branch by keeping it regularly aligned with svn and pushing it to the fork
# Merge the latest trunk from svn git checkout upstream-trunk git svn rebase git checkout FEATURE git merge upstream-trunk # your normal work and commits in FEATURE # sending the commits to github git push
Now the work is completed and you want to attach a patch to the jira issue for commit and/or review
git checkout upstream-trunk git svn rebase git checkout FEATURE git merge upstream-trunk # solve any conflicts git push # producing the patch file git diff -w -p upstream-trunk > ~/FEATURE.patch
As for the patch, the work is complete and you want to commmit to svn (assuming you have rights)
# getting the latest svn git checkout upstream-trunk git svn rebase git checkout FEATURE git merge upstream-trunk git push # taking all the branch commit into upstream as one big commit git checkout upstream-trunk git merge --squash --no-commit FEATURE # committing all the changes as git git commit -a # committing all the changes to svn git svn dcommit --username=goofy --no-rebase # --username is needed only the first commit or if differs from # the currently logged in # --no-rebase is useful if you're EU based as the apache svn EU # mirror lag behind some seconds. # # if in EU wait 10 seconds and give a `git svn rebase` to properly # align your upstream later on.