On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 07:22:07AM -0700, Stephen Kiel wrote: > Roman and Pat, > > I have made some progress toward getting my tutorial ready for release, but > I am at a point now where I have hit a wall, and I would like to ask for > some advice on how to proceed. > > I did do a final edit of the tutorial, format it into xhtml, and add a > couple of pictures. I downloaded a copy of Bluefish and used it to format > the material into an xhtml file adding the boilerplate provided in the > tutorial template by hand. It seemed to render well in the Firefox browser. > > I did find a procedure for adding content through git web at > https://wiki.gnome.org/Git/Developers and followed it as best as I could. I > was able to clone the gimp-web, check out a branch, make local changes and > commit them, but then my progress stopped. My questions are: > > 1) when I performed a 'git branch -r' several branches were listed. I > guessed and picked HEAD as it appeared to link to origin/master. When I did > a 'git status' and 'git commit -a' I got a warning message that “refname > 'HEAD' is ambiguous”. Did I pick the wrong branch? Is there another > problem, or is this warning normal? HEAD is the generic name for the "head" of a [your] local branch... see this for an intro into git: http://www.sbf5.com/~cduan/technical/git/ what you probably want to do is: git checkout master to see _all_ the branches git branch --all > 2) The guidelines I was looking at seemed to be saying I could either use > 'git-bz' or 'git push' to get my changes back to the main repository. better to use the second ... > Neither worked, have you write rights? > so I was wondering which technique I should focus on. Would > rather not debug them both at this time (could use quite a bit of time, > since I don't know what either is trying to do). > > The error message that I go with git-bz was: > > > bash: git-bz: command not found... if ubuntu / debian you have to: apt-cache show git-bzr-ng but ... are you more confident with bazar? Why you want to insist on use such an iterface module? I do not suggest you to use such tool ... use directly git! > > The error message from git push –dry-run was: > > fatal: Could not read from remote repository. > > Please make sure you have the correct access rights that was what I was saying above... > > and the repository exists. > > A git pull –rebase right before trying the push seemed to find the > repository and verify that my current branch is up to date. ok > > I would appreciate any pointers you could give me. I am attaching a copy > of the transcript from my shell session. I am also attaching a copy of the > files I was trying to add & modify in case it is relevant or you would like > to take a look at them. > I'll look at those ... > In the mean time, I will start looking at git-bz in case that is the write > way to go. It looks like there may be some setup issues, even though the > error message make it look like it is an installation issue. The options > for the bz command were not clear to me. The wiki page indicated the syntax > should be: > > git-bz file product/component HEAD > > I am guessing the product should be 'gimp-web', but when I look at > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=gimp-web I see the > component listed as both gimp-web and www.gimp.org. Do you know which it > should be, or whether it matters? git-web > When it asks for 'file' I am assuming it > is looking for the results of the local 'commit'. In my case the feedback > was > > [HEAD a97ce5a] Added tutorial Automate Creation fo XCF from JPG" > > Are they looking for a97ce5a as the file? see the illuminating above tutorial... that is a header and it is just a checksum for your branch "state" bye PS: sorry I haven't followed the thread until now... I'll read all mailing exchanges to give more useful answers ... -- Marco Ciampa +--------------------+ | Linux User #78271 | | FSFE fellow #364 | +--------------------+ _______________________________________________ gimp-docs-list mailing list gimp-docs-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-docs-list
