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This page documents how to develop ITK through Git. See our table of contents for more information.

Git is an extremely powerful version control tool that supports many different "workflows" for indivudal development and collaboration. Here we document procedures used by the ITK development community. In the interest of simplicity and brevity we do not provide an explanation of why we use this approach. Furthermore, this is not a Git tutorial. Please see our Git resource links for third-party documentation, such as the ProGit Book.

Introduction

Before you begin, perform initial setup:

  1. Register Gerrit access and possibly Git push access.
  2. Follow the download instructions to create a local ITK clone.
  3. Run the developer setup script to prepare your ITK work tree and create Git command aliases used below:
$ ./Utilities/SetupForDevelopment.sh

ITK development uses a branchy workflow based on topic branches. Our collaboration workflow consists of three main steps:

  1. Create Changes: Develop Locally (requires no special access)
  2. Share Changes: Code Review with Gerrit (requires Gerrit access)
  3. Integrate Changes: Merge using Topic Stage (requires Git push access)

Local Development

Update

Update your local master branch:

$ git checkout master
$ git pullall

git help checkout

(pullall is an alias for pull
and submodule update)

Create a Topic Branch

Name topics like you might name functions: concise but precise. A reader should have a general idea of the feature or fix to be developed given just the branch name.

To start a new topic branch:

$ git fetch origin
$ git checkout -b my-topic origin/master

git help fetch

git help checkout

Edit files and create commits (repeat as needed):

$ edit file1 file2 file3
$ git add file1 file2 file3
$ git commit

git help add

git help commit

Code Review

Share a Topic Branch

Checkout the topic if it is not your current branch:

$ git checkout my-topic

git help checkout

Check what commits will be pushed to Gerrit for review:

$ git prepush

(prepush is an alias)

Push commits in your topic branch for review by the community:

$ git gerrit-push

(gerrit-push is an alias)

Topic Stage

Integrate a Topic Branch

Checkout the topic if it is not your current branch:

$ git checkout my-topic

git help checkout

Push the topic to the ITK Topic Stage repository:

$ git stage-push

(stage-push is an alias)

Ask the topic stage repository to merge the topic:

$ git stage-merge

(stage-merge is an alias)

Delete a Topic Branch

Checkout and update the master branch:

$ git checkout master
$ git pullall

git help checkout

(pullall is an alias for pull
and submodule update)

Delete the local topic branch:

$ git branch -d my-topic

git help branch

The branch -d command works only when the topic branch has been correctly merged. Use -D instead of -d to force the deletion of an unmerged topic branch (warning - you could lose commits).