Pacman Development

Interested in Pacman Development? This page should help you get started.

Remember that if you think something belongs on this page, add it! The current pacman developers are not likely to know what people need to know and should be on this page.

External References and Links

• Pacman Homepage
• Latest NEWS/ChangeLog
• Pacman Gitweb
• Mailing List Archives
• ML Archives with search engine
• HACKING
• Submitting Patches
• Translation Help

GIT Cheat Sheet

Clone git repo - only needed once

 git clone git://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git pacman

Enable useful hooks

 chmod +x .git/hooks/{applypatch-msg,commit-msg,pre-commit,pre-rebase}

Create branch "<branch>"

 git branch <branch>

Work with branch "<branch>"

 git checkout <branch>

Commit changes on current branch and make patch to master branch

 git commit -a -s
 git format-patch master

Amend patch (Don't use it after a push)

 git commit -a --amend -s

Add file "<file>"

 git add <file>

Remove file "<file>"

 git rm <file>

Remove branch "<branch>"

 git branch -D <branch>

Update master branch

 git checkout master
 git pull

Merge changes on master with "<branch>"

 git rebase master <branch>

Get maint branch

 git branch -r
 git checkout -b maint origin/maint