Changes between Version 21 and Version 22 of StartModMaint

Timestamp:

Dec 15, 2013, 3:37:51 PM (9 years ago)

Author:

Beman Dawes

Comment:

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StartModMaint

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 == Prerequisites ==
 
- * A recent release of the Git command line client installed. See [wiki:Git/GitHome Getting Started with Git].
+ * A recent release of the Git command line client installed. See [wiki:Git/GitHome Getting Started with Git] for the git version required.
  * A (free) [http://www.github.com GitHub] account. See [wiki:StartGitHub Getting Started with GitHub.]
  * A compiler and development environment installed and working smoothly.
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 == Getting started ==
 
-The preferred development environment is usually for the library being worked on have a development branch checked out, while Boost super-project and other Boost libraries are on the {{{master}}} branch. This causes tests of your library to run against {{{master}}} of other Boost libraries and that is a more realistic test environment in than the possibly unstable {{{develop}}} branch of other Boost libraries.
+The preferred development environment is usually for the library being worked on have a development branch checked out, while Boost super-project and other Boost libraries are on the {{{master}}} branch. This causes tests of your library to run against {{{master}}} of other Boost libraries and that is a more realistic test environment in than testing against the possibly unstable {{{develop}}} branch of other Boost libraries. Robert Ramey has advocated this approach to testing for years, and Git and the modularization of Boost via submodules makes this approach easier. 
 
 === Update super-project and submodules for all libraries ===
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 cd modular-boost
 git checkout master
-git pull --recurse-submodules
-
+git pull
+git submodule foreach --recursive "git checkout master; git pull"
 }}} 
 
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 {{{
+cd modular-boost/libs/mylib
 git pull
 }}}
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 == Typical maintenance tasks  ==
 
+Unless otherwise specified, it is assumed you have already done a {{{cd modular-boost/libs/mylib}}}.
+
 === Testing locally ===
+
+Unless you are 100% sure of the state of your library's regression tests, it is a good idea to run the regression tests before making any changes to the library:
 
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