Code Repository
Mesa uses git as its source code management system.
The master git repository is hosted on freedesktop.org.
You may access the repository either as an anonymous user (read-only) or as a developer (read/write).
You may also browse the main Mesa git repository and the Mesa demos and tests git repository.
Anonymous git Access
To get the Mesa sources anonymously (read-only):
- Install the git software on your computer if needed.
- Get an initial, local copy of the repository with:
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/mesa
- Later, you can update your tree from the master repository with:
git pull origin
- If you also want the Mesa demos/tests repository:
git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/demos
Developer git Access
Mesa developers need to first have an account on freedesktop.org. To get an account, please ask Brian or the other Mesa developers for permission. Then, if there are no objections, follow this procedure.
Once your account is established:
- Install the git software on your computer if needed.
- Get an initial, local copy of the repository with:
git clone git+ssh://username@git.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/mesa
Replace username with your actual login name.
- Later, you can update your tree from the master repository with:
git pull origin
- If you also want the Mesa demos/tests repository:
git clone git+ssh://username@git.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/demos
Windows Users
If you're using git on Windows you'll want to enable automatic CR/LF conversion in your local copy of the repository:
git config --global core.autocrlf true
This will cause git to convert all text files to CR+LF on checkout, and to LF on commit.
Unix users don't need to set this option.
Development Branches
At any given time, there may be several active branches in Mesa's repository. Generally, the trunk contains the latest development (unstable) code while a branch has the latest stable code.
The command git-branch
will list all available branches.
Questions about branch status/activity should be posted to the mesa3d-dev mailing list.
Developer Git Tips
- Setting up to edit the master branch
If you try to do a pull by just saying
git pull
and git complains that you have not specified a branch, try:git config branch.master.remote origin git config branch.master.merge master
Otherwise, you have to say
git pull origin master
each time you do a pull. - Small changes to master
If you are an experienced git user working on substantial modifications, you are probably working on a separate branch and would rebase your branch prior to merging with master. But for small changes to the master branch itself, you also need to use the rebase feature in order to avoid an unnecessary and distracting branch in master.
If it has been awhile since you've done the initial clone, try
git pull
to get the latest files before you start working.
Make your changes and use
git add <files to commit> git commit
to get your changes ready to push back into the fd.o repository.
It is possible (and likely) that someone has changed master since you did your last pull. Even if your changes do not conflict with their changes, git will make a fast-forward merge branch, branching from the point in time where you did your last pull and merging it to a point after the other changes.
To avoid this,
git pull --rebase git push
If you are familiar with CVS or similar system, this is similar to doing a
cvs update
in order to update your source tree to the current repository state, instead of the time you did the last update. (CVS doesn't work like git in this respect, but this is easiest way to explain it.)
In any case, your repository now looks like you made your changes after all the other changes.If the rebase resulted in conflicts or changes that could affect the proper operation of your changes, you'll need to investigate those before doing the push.
If you want the rebase action to be the default action, then
git config branch.master.rebase true git config --global branch.autosetuprebase=always
See Understanding Git Conceptually for a fairly clear explanation about all of this.