The IDE most LT workers use is far too complex for me.
And github is not really my friend as well. I have been experencing too much unexpected and (for me) unsolvable issues committing for LT.
Still, I would like to keep on contributing. I found out a nice way to edit small files from the github web pages, but most LT files are far too large to edit there.
So I am stuck.
Is there anyone here that understand the github command line to show me how to:
set up a fork of LT (which appears to be necessary, no idea why)
show me the commands to start a branch for a change
how to commit that change
how to make a merge request for it and check the test results
how to actually merge
how to discard the merge when it fails
how to close the change
And how to start the next change…
There are many tutorials around, but all of thise I could find appear to either reference to other unknown github functions, or are too complex themselves.
No Windows here. Just Linux. Most tools just offer too much. I just need a working command sequence to do what is needed to be done.
After some testing, this simple bash script appears to do the trick:
#!/bin/bash
ME=“rjb”
NOW=date +%s
LANG=“nl”
BRANCH=“$ME-$NOW”
git checkout -b “$BRANCH”
git branch --set-upstream-to=origin
git pull -r
echo “EDIT THE FILES NOW IN OTHER WINDOWS. ENTER HERE WHEN FINISHED”
echo “commit message:”
read MSG
git status
git add .
git status
git commit -m “[$LANG] $MSG”
git push origin $BRANCH
echo “GO TO THE INDICATED GITHUB PAGE NOW, AND CONTINUE THE PROCESS OF TESTING AND MERGING.”
echo “AFTER THAT, ‘Enter’ HERE”
read DUMMY
git checkout master
git branch -D $BRANCH