<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi,<div><br></div><div><div><div>On 06/11/2011, at 2:31 PM, Ms. Nancy Wichmann wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>I have downloaded msysgit.</span></div><ol><li><span>It has a GUI built-in, so why does everyone list command line stuff? I was dragged, kicking and screaming, into the GUI world and really don't want to go back, especially when I have to type in really long file locations and arcane parameters.</span></li></ol></div></div></blockquote><div>The main reason for posting command line is that is it more actuate and will work. Describing guy functions is much harder.</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><ol start="2"><li><span>All I want to do is commit (CVS term) my changed code to D.O. I don't need a lot of other fancy stuff. <br></span></li></ol></div></div></blockquote><div>If you take a look at the version control tab on your project page, it gives you quite a good run down on how to do the basics for you what you would generally need to do.</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; position: static; z-index: auto; "><ol start="3"><li><span>How do I get my 6.x code into my D7 sites/all/modules, convert it, and save it back as a 7.x version?</span></li></ol></div></div></blockquote><div>To do this, the easiest method is in your D7 environment checkout out the D6 version of your module, which will be something like</div><div><br></div><div>$ git clone --branch 6.x-1.x <a href="mailto:xxx@git.drupal.org">xxx@git.drupal.org</a>/project/example.get</div><div><br></div><div>If you are still using the master branch for your 6.x branch then use master instead of 6.x-1.x</div><div><br></div><div>This will give you a copy of your 6.x version in your 7.x site.</div><div><br></div><div>now run the following command to create the 7.x branch</div><div><br></div><div>$ git checkout -b 7.x-1.x</div><div><br></div><div>and then to send this to d.o do the following.</div><div><br></div><div>$ git push -u origin 7.x-1.x</div><div><br></div><div>Then I recommend you run your module through coder to do the initial upgrade and then fix up everything coder cannot convert.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; position: static; z-index: auto; "><div><span>Secondarily, I need to use it for patches to other modules.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Yes, I have been looking at the tutorials on D.O. Seriously, do you think an old blond like me understands all that with limited to no explanations on
what I am doing?<br></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Take a look at the version control tab of your project (make sure you are logged in) and it will explain most of it.</div><div><br></div><div>Gordon.</div></div><br></div></body></html>