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== The set up ==
 
1. Go to [https://github.com/ Github] and create an account.
 
2. Go to the [https://github.com/moodle/moodle official Moodle Github repository] and click on the Fork button. You now have your own github Moodle repository.
 
3. Install GIT on your computer. If you are on Mac, [http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer/ git-osx-installer] installs it in few click.
 
4. Now the technical part, you will need to setup your SSH public key, so you can push to your github Moodle repository from your local Moodle repository. On Mac you can go on this [http://help.github.com/mac-key-setup/ Github help page]. If you are on another system, go to your Github administration page, to the section SSH Public Keys, and you should see a link to a help page. Is it done? Good, it was the most difficult.
 
== Working on 2.0 ==
 
1. Create a local clone repository of your github repository. In a terminal:
<code bash>
git clone git@github.com:YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/moodle.git ./YOUR_LOCAL_MOODLE_FOLDER/
</code>
 
2. You will create a update script in order to update your github and local repository from git.moodle.org. Add a reference to this Moodle.org Git repository and make your local cvshead branch tracking it:
<code bash>
git remote add upstream git://git.moodle.org/moodle.git
git branch --set-upstream cvshead upstream/cvshead
</code>
 
3. Create the update script (name it "update_github")
 
<code bash>
cd YOUR_LOCAL_MOODLE_FOLDER
git fetch upstream
git checkout cvshead
git pull
git push origin refs/remotes/upstream/cvshead:cvshead
</code>
 
4. Run the./update_github script. Your local repository ("cvshead" branch) and your github repository ("cvshead" branch) will be updated from git.moodle.org.
 
5. Now you can work on a new issue. You can use a Git UI tool like SmartGit for these steps:
* run the update script (the script will switch to "cvshead" branch, so take care to stash/commit the changes of your current branch)
* create a new branch and switch to it. You should never work in your local cvshead branch.
* fix your issue with your favorite IDE.
* commit, push and do a pull request.
 
== Working on 1.9 or earlier branches ==
This is just a tiny little bit more complicated that working on 2.0. Even though you could work in the same folder that 2.0, create another folder for working in 1.9. It will make things less messy and easier to understand.
 
1. In a terminal
<code bash>
git clone git@github.com:YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/moodle.git ./YOUR_LOCAL_MOODLE_19_FOLDER/
</code>
 
2. Add the remote upstream. You want to update your local MOODLE_19_STABLE branch and your github (called "origin") MOODLE_19_STABLE branch from the official Moodle upstream.
<code bash>
git remote add upstream git://git.moodle.org/moodle.git
git fetch upstream
</code>
 
3. Now you are going to create a local 1.9 branch. You will keep this branch updated (the branch will track upstream) and you are never going to work in it.
<code bash>
git checkout -b MOODLE_19_STABLE upstream/MOODLE_19_STABLE
</code>
 
4. Create the update script in ./update_github
<code bash>
cd YOUR_LOCAL_MOODLE_19_FOLDER
git fetch upstream
git checkout MOODLE_19_STABLE
git pull
git push origin refs/remotes/upstream/MOODLE_19_STABLE:MOODLE_19_STABLE
</code>
 
5. Run the script. Your github MOODLE_19_STABLE branch and your local MOODLE_19_STABLE branch are now updated.
 
6. You can now work on an issue. You can use a Git UI tool like SmartGit for these steps:
* run the update script (don't forget to stash/commit the change of your current local branch, you are going to switch to MOODLE_19_STABLE local branch)
* create a new branch for your issue and switch to it
* fix your issue with your favorite IDE
* commit, push and do a pull request
 
== Troubleshooting ==
 
* If you created a new local branch and straight away pushed it to github, you could end up with some problems when '''cloning''' later. The created remote branch would have the same SHA1 as the remote cvshead branch.  It means that '''remotes/origin/HEAD would point to two different branches'''. To fix this error you can delete the empty remote branch:
<code bash>
git push origin :EMPTY_REMOTE_BRANCH_NAME
</code>
 
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