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Contributing to the EasyBuild documentation wiki

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Kenneth Hoste edited this page Oct 29, 2013 · 9 revisions

Currently, GitHub doesn't allow assigning fine-grained permissions to repositories, so we can't allow people to easily contribute to the wiki pages without giving them full administrative access to the entire repository.

Contribute

To contribute to the EasyBuild wiki, follow the steps below.

Setup (only needed once)

  • Fork the easybuild-wiki repository that contains the raw wiki pages in MarkDown format
  • Clone your repository to your workstation, and define the hpcugent easybuild-wiki repository as upstream remote
git clone [email protected]:YOUR_GITHUB_LOGIN/easybuild-wiki.git
cd easybuild-wiki
git remote add upstream [email protected]:hpcugent/easybuild-wiki.git

Make a contribution

  • Edit a wiki page, commit the changes and push to your repository
vim Home.md
git commit -am "fix typo"
git push origin master
  • Create a pull request for your changes to the hpcugent repository

Preview new wiki pages

To preview the changes you've just made, you can push them to the wiki of your own easybuild-wiki repository.

Setup (only needed once)

git remote add my_wiki [email protected]:YOUR_GITHUB_LOGIN/easybuild-wiki.wiki.git
git pull my_wiki master

Update your preview

git push my_wiki master

You can then view your version of the wiki at https://github.com/YOUR_GITHUB_LOGIN/easybuild-wiki/wiki (note: change the YOUR_GITHUB_LOGIN part to obtain a valid URL).

Update

To update your easybuild-wiki repository, use:

git pull upstream master

Include merged pull requests

Note: the procedure below requires admin rights on the easybuild repository where the EasyBuild wiki is hosted, and thus might not work for you.

When EasyBuild wiki contribution pull requests are merged in, the following steps should be performed to push the changes through to the actual wiki pages.

Setup (only needed once)

git remote add easybuild_wiki [email protected]:hpcugent/easybuild.wiki.git

Get merged PRs included in main EasyBuild wiki

git checkout master
# sync with upstream repo (pull in merged PRs)
git pull upstream master
# pull in wiki edits
git pull easybuild_wiki master
# resolve conflicts, if any
# push latest wiki version to live EasyBuild wiki
git push easybuild_wiki master

Update easybuild-wiki repository with wiki edits

Note: the procedure below requires admin rights on the easybuild repository where the EasyBuild wiki is hosted, and thus might not work for you.

To update the easybuild-wiki repository with updates made directly on the EasyBuild wiki, use:

Setup (only needed once)

# create separate branch for updates made on wiki
git checkout master
git checkout -b easybuild_wiki

Update

# check out easybuild_wiki branch (don't make any local commits in this yourself!)
git checkout easybuild_wiki
# pull in wiki edits
git pull easybuild_wiki master
# make sure this branch is in sync with upstream easybuild-wiki repo
git pull upstream master
# push wiki edits to upstream repo
git push upstream easybuild_wiki:master
Clone this wiki locally