TYPO3 Contribution Howto¶

Code reviews¶

The TYPO3 community maintains a lot of projects on git.typo3.org and uses a Git/Gerrit workflow for code reviews. In addition the tickets on forge.typo3.org are closely linked with that process.

Great - but difficult!¶

All this is great - but not easy for newcomers. Even experienced users frequently will have to look up some of the howtos.

Solution¶

Fortunately there is a great wiki resource that covers all the little details and is kept up to date by the team:

To the rescue: The Contribution Walkthrough Tutorials in the Wiki:

Go to these Contribution Walkthrough Tutorials in the Wiki

Often needed:

curl -o .git/hooks/commit-msg \
   "https://typo3.org/fileadmin/resources/git/commit-msg.txt" && \
   chmod +x .git/hooks/commit-msg

# git push origin HEAD:refs/for/<release-branch>
git push origin HEAD:refs/for/master

# git config --global url."ssh://<username>@review.typo3.org:29418".pushInsteadOf git://git.typo3.org
git config --global branch.autosetuprebase remote