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Git

1. Introduction


What is Git?

Git is a version control system (vcs) originally developped for the Linux Kernel development. Git as a vcs is used to develop and to deploy software, such as other vcs'es like CVS, Subversion (svn), Perforce, Bazaar, and so on, whereas Git has a unique decentralized approach.

In 2005, the relationship between the community that developed the Linux kernel and the commercial company that developed BitKeeper broke down, and the tool’s free-of-charge status was revoked. This prompted the Linux development community (and in particular Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux) to develop their own tool based on some of the lessons they learned while using BitKeeper. Some of the goals of the new system were as follows:
Speed, Simple design, Strong support for non-linear development (thousands of parallel branches), Fully distributed, Able to handle large projects like the Linux kernel efficiently (speed and data size)

The Pro Git book was written by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub and published by Apress, is available online and as print version.
All content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 3.0 license.
Print versions of the book are available on Amazon.com and the online verion on the git community website here: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2.

Git is being used to implement an additional contribution process via a Distributed version control system for the Tiki community. The reasons, pros and cons are documented on Distributed revision control page.

Despite the benefits of using Git, there are many concerns about how each contributor will behave, work and what kind of problems they will find on their daily activities. So, this document and derived pages are an attempt to guess what knowledge a Tiki developer should have for contributing to Tiki.

2. Related pages


Git: You are reading this. Root page of the Git structure. An attempt at consolidating/linking all the git information the information. Also a lot of introductory content.


Pages in the Git structure we may want to document above (or maybe put the info above in the page description):

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Unable to retrieve information for structure id "478"

3. Status as of 2018-06-12


There is a combined workflow using SVN and Git to make a more smooth transition and less impact on daily activities of Tiki developers. This workflow can be found on Git and SVN combined workflow page and it details how is the integration of SVN and Git now.

Also, the current phase of migration strategy involves writing enough documentation and close write access to SVN repository, making it read-only. Probably soon, we will have a Round Table Meeting to check if it is time to close SVN. Only once the following is done can we talk about closing write access to the SVN repo.

  1. The Git workflow is compelling enough that the majority of developers want to move to it
  2. All those who would like some support / training have received it.
  3. The Git-related documentation is ready (we need something equivalent as what we have for SVN)
  4. The relevant automated scripts (such as the release scripts) have all been ported to use Git
  5. There is a strategy for usernames (how to request access, etc.)


See Using Git with Tiki and Git Tips to start developing with Git.

4. Roadmap

  1. Setup workflow to work with Git and SVN
  2. Write documentation
  3. Talk on Round Table Meeting about Git
  4. Setup help channel for developers struggling with Git
  5. Close SVN write access
  6. Publish the new Tiki repository

5. Discussions

Distributed revision control has discussions which led to Git being the best option.

Keywords

The following is a list of keywords that should serve as hubs for navigation within the Tiki development and should correspond to documentation keywords.

Each feature in Tiki has a wiki page which regroups all the bugs, requests for enhancements, etc. It is somewhat a form of wiki-based project management. You can also express your interest in a feature by adding it to your profile. You can also try out the Dynamic filter.

Accessibility (WAI & 508)
Accounting
Administration
Ajax
Articles & Submissions
Backlinks
Banner
Batch
BigBlueButton audio/video/chat/screensharing
Blog
Bookmark
Browser Compatibility
Calendar
Category
Chat
Comment
Communication Center
Consistency
Contacts Address book
Contact us
Content template
Contribution
Cookie
Copyright
Credits
Custom Home (and Group Home Page)
Database MySQL - MyISAM
Database MySQL - InnoDB
Date and Time
Debugger Console
Diagram
Directory (of hyperlinks)
Documentation link from Tiki to doc.tiki.org (Help System)
Docs
DogFood
Draw -superseded by Diagram
Dynamic Content
Preferences
Dynamic Variable
External Authentication
FAQ
Featured links
Feeds (RSS)
File Gallery
Forum
Friendship Network (Community)
Gantt
Group
Groupmail
Help
History
Hotword
HTML Page
i18n (Multilingual, l10n, Babelfish)
Image Gallery
Import-Export
Install
Integrator
Interoperability
Inter-User Messages
InterTiki
jQuery
Kaltura video management
Kanban
Karma
Live Support
Logs (system & action)
Lost edit protection
Mail-in
Map
Menu
Meta Tag
Missing features
Visual Mapping
Mobile
Mods
Modules
MultiTiki
MyTiki
Newsletter
Notepad
OS independence (Non-Linux, Windows/IIS, Mac, BSD)
Organic Groups (Self-managed Teams)
Packages
Payment
PDF
Performance Speed / Load / Compression / Cache
Permission
Poll
Profiles
Quiz
Rating
Realname
Report
Revision Approval
Scheduler
Score
Search engine optimization (SEO)
Search
Security
Semantic links
Share
Shopping Cart
Shoutbox
Site Identity
Slideshow
Smarty Template
Social Networking
Spam protection (Anti-bot CATPCHA)
Spellcheck
Spreadsheet
Staging and Approval
Stats
Survey
Syntax Highlighter (Codemirror)
Tablesorter
Tags
Task
Tell a Friend
Terms and Conditions
Theme
TikiTests
Federated Timesheets
Token Access
Toolbar (Quicktags)
Tours
Trackers
TRIM
User Administration
User Files
User Menu
Watch
Webmail and Groupmail
WebServices
Wiki History, page rename, etc
Wiki plugins extends basic syntax
Wiki syntax text area, parser, etc
Wiki structure (book and table of content)
Workspace and perspectives
WYSIWTSN
WYSIWYCA
WYSIWYG
XMLRPC
XMPP




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