[PUSHED] fdo#42135: Appending a library functionality in Macro Programming missing or misdocumented

[Petr Mladek]

Stephan Bergmann píše v Po 29. 10. 2012 v 10:49 +0100:
> On 10/29/2012 10:15 AM, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > Stephan Bergmann píše v Pá 26. 10. 2012 v 17:14 +0200:
> >> Yeah, by the time I would have got hold of Norbert to ask him what he
> >> meant with that, I had already figured out enough of it on my own to get
> >> something that looks like it works.  For a commit whose content
> >> logically just affects helpcontent2, not also core, what I'd do is
> >>
> >>     git submodule
> >>       # sanity check, should display all submodules w/o leading
> >>       # '+', '-', or 'U'
> >>     cd helpcontent2
> >>     git am ... # or whatever
> >>     git push
> >
> > Hmm, I get the following error at this stage:
> >
> > --- cut ---
> > $> git push
> > fatal: You are not currently on a branch.
> > To push the history leading to the current (detached HEAD)
> > state now, use
> >
> >      git push origin HEAD:<name-of-remote-branch>
> > --- cut ---
> 
> Ach, this needs to be "git push origin HEAD:master" (it never works to 
> write down instructions by heart).

Cool, this worked => pushed.

> >> (Whether the commit/push in core is really necessary, or whether gerrit
> >> would do that automatically I'm not really sure, cf.
> >> <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2012-October/040204.html>
> >> "[Libreoffice-commits] .: 5 commits [...]"  However, if it is not
> >> necessary, it should be harmless, as the then-necessary "git pull -r"
> >> would collapse the manual commit into gerrit's automatic one.)
> >
> > Norbert, Stefan, I hope that you will somehow sort it out. I still hope
> > that I will not need to read any huge amount of git documentation to be
> > able to commit :-)
> 
> This stop of automatic gerrit core commits was an unexpected side-effect 
> of another commit I reverted now, see my other mail in this thread.

The automatic core commit worked as well now.

Thanks a lot for help and improving the stuff.


Best Regards,
Petr