Development Basics

Gluon’s source is kept in git repositories at GitHub.

Bug Tracker

The main repo does have issues enabled.

IRC

Gluon’s developers frequent #gluon on hackint. You’re welcome to join us!

Working with repositories

To update the repositories used by Gluon, just adjust the commit IDs in modules and rerun

make update

make update also applies the patches that can be found in the directories found in patches; the resulting branch will be called patched, while the commit specified in modules can be refered to by the branch base.

make unpatch

sets the repositories to the base branch,

make patch

re-applies the patches by resetting the patched branch to base and calling git am for the patch files. Calling make or a similar command after calling make unpatch is generally not a good idea.

After new patches have been commited on top of the patched branch (or existing commits since the base commit have been edited or removed), the patch directories can be regenerated using

make update-patches

If applying a patch fails because you have changed the base commit, the repository will be reset to the old patched branch and you can try rebasing it onto the new base branch yourself and after that call make update-patches to fix the problem.

Always call make update-patches after making changes to a module repository as make update will overwrite your commits, making git reflog the only way to recover them!