Rebasing your repo brings code from the main repo into your own; this means bringing the code you're working on, up-to-date with your colleagues.
It is a good idea to rebase often, and you should always rebase before doing a commit.
Once you have done a commit, you should not do additional rebases until your work has been merged into the main repo.
To do a rebase, you need to bring up a terminal at the location of the project. Under OS X, this is most easily done with the Github client, by selecting Open in Terminal
from the Repository
menu. Under Windows, this is most easily done with the Github client, by selecting Open in Git Shell
from the gear menu at the top right.
Under OS X, only the first time your do a rebase, you will need to issue the following commands:
git remote add upstream https://github.com/jasp-stats/jasp-desktop.git
git checkout development
Under windows, only the first time you do a rebase, it is necessary to issue:
git checkout development
Subsequently on all platforms you can rebase your repo with the following commands:
git stash
note the output from this command; does it say "No local changes to save" (or something like it)?
git fetch upstream
git rebase upstream/development
git push
if the git stash
above output "No local changes to save" then do not do this last command:
git stash pop
git stash
: stashes your changes (hides them temporarily)git fetch upstream
: fetches the code from the main repogit rebase upstream/development
: makes your repo the same as the main onegit push
: pushes the changes to your repo on githubgit stash pop
: recovers/returns the changes that you stashed at the beginning
This results in the latest work from the main repo, with your changes on top.