.. _developer_contribution:

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Developer Contributions to GDAL
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Install all required development packages: GNU make, g++, …

Build:

::

   cd gdal
   ./configure [options]
   make -j8 -s
   cd apps; make -s test_ogrsf; cd ..

Run command line utilities (without installing):

::

   . scripts/setdevenv.sh
   gdalinfo --version

Run autotest suite:

::

   cd ../autotest
   pip install -r requirements.txt
   pytest

Git workflows with GDAL
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This is not a git tutorial or reference manual by any means. This just
collects a few best practice for git usage for GDAL development.

Commit message
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Indicate a component name (eg a driver name), a short description and
when relevant, a reference to a issue (with ‘fixes #’ if it actually
fixes it)

::

   COMPONENT_NAME: fix bla bla (fixes #1234)

   Details here...

Initiate your work repository
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Fork `OSGeo/GDAL <https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal>`__ from GitHub UI, and then

::

   git clone https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal
   cd gdal
   git remote add my_user_name https://github.com/my_user_name/gdal.git

Updating your local master against upstream master
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::

   git checkout master
   git fetch origin
   # Be careful: this will loose all local changes you might have done now
   git reset --hard origin/master

Working with a feature branch
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::

   git checkout master
   (potentially update your local master against upstream, as described above)
   git checkout -b my_new_feature_branch

   # do work. For example:
   git add my_new_file
   git add my_modifid_message
   git rm old_file
   git commit -a

   # you may need to resynchronize against master if you need some bugfix
   # or new capability that has been added since you created your branch
   git fetch origin
   git rebase origin/master

   # At end of your work, make sure history is reasonable by folding non
   # significant commits into a consistent set
   git rebase -i master (use 'fixup' for example to merge several commits together,
   and 'reword' to modify commit messages)

   # or alternatively, in case there is a big number of commits and marking
   # all them as 'fixup' is tedious
   git fetch origin
   git rebase origin/master
   git reset --soft origin/master
   git commit -a -m "Put here the synthetic commit message"

   # push your branch
   git push my_user_name my_new_feature_branch
   From GitHub UI, issue a pull request

If the pull request discussion or CI checks require
changes, commit locally and push. To get a reasonable history, you may
need to ``git rebase -i master``, in which case you will have to
force-push your branch with
``git push -f my_user_name my_new_feature_branch``

Backporting bugfixes from master to a stable branch
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::

   git checkout master
   With git log, identify the sha1sum of the commit you want to backport
   git checkout 2.2 (if you want to backport to 2.2)
   git pull origin 2.2
   (git checkout -b branch_name: if you intend to submit the backport as a pull request)
   git cherry-pick the_sha1_sum
   git push ...

If changes are needed, do them and ``git commit -a --amend``

Things you should NOT do
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(For anyone with push rights to github.com/OSGeo/gdal) Never modify a
commit or the history of anything that has been committed to
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal
