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New projects

Creating the main repository

This will initialize and create an empty git repository.

  1. Visit git.tams.tech/tws and click "New Repository".
  2. Set the 'Owner' to TWS.
  3. Give the repository/project a name. Good repository names use short, memorable and unique keywords.
  4. (optional but recommended) Enter a short description of what this repo does / is for.
  5. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and press "Create Repository".

Clone the main repository

Here we will clone the main repository and do some initial setup.

  1. Clone the repository to your machine, where <PROJECT> is the name of the project.
git clone https://git.tams.tech/TWS/<PROJECT>
cd <PROJECT>
  1. Create a README.md file. This file should have a longer description of what the project is. You can be as detailed as you like.
touch README.md
  1. Create a .gitignore file. This file should include any file, extension, directory, or pattern you wish to NOT be tracked by git.
touch .gitignore
  1. Push the initial work done so far.
git add .
git commit -m init
git push origin main
  1. Once the changes can be seen at https://git.tams.tech/TWS/<PROJECT>, you can delete the local repository on your computer.

Forking the project

All work to a project should ideally be done in a fork and not in the main repository. This write up will walk you through the process of forking through the web interface.

  1. Visit https://git.tams.tech/TWS/<PROJECT> and in the upper right hand corner press "Fork".
  2. Leave everything default as all the information for 'Owner', 'Repository Name' & 'Description' should be correct. Press "Fork Repository".
  3. You should now be able to visit https://git.tams.tech/<YOU>/<PROJECT>, where <YOU> is your username & <PROJECT> is the name of the project.
  4. Clone the repository to your machine.
git clone https://git.tams.tech/<YOU>/<PROJECT>
  1. Add the main repository as upstream. This will allow you to fetch upstream changes and merge them into your fork.
git remote add upstream https://git.tams.tech/TWS/<PROJECT>

WARNING: Do NOT push to upstream unless you have gone through a Pull Request! Only use the upstream remote to PULL in new changes.

You can now work on the project, commit changes, and submit Pull Requests from your fork to the main upstream repository repository.