Git and VCS

Gitalk

Gitalk is a free, open-source commenting system that uses GitHub issues for comment storage. It’s an excellent option for developers hosting websites on platforms like GitHub Pages.

1. Create a GitHub OAuth Application
   1. Developer Settings > OAuth Apps.
   2. Click on New OAuth App to get a Client ID and Client Secret
      • Application Name: Name of your app (e.g., Gitalk Comments).
      • Homepage URL: URL of your website.
      • Authorization Callback URL: Same as your homepage URL (e.g., https://your-website-url.com).

CI/CD Tools

pre-commit tools

• A pre-commit hook is simply a Git hook that’s run automatically every time you make a commit
  • On each git commit it runs this sequence of checks, the “hooks” defined in your .pre-commit-config.yaml
  • pre-commit install: pre-commit installed at .git/hooks/pre-commit
  • pre-commit run --all-files
• Copyright test.
  • Use ament_copyright --add-missing "Rico Jia" bsd_3clause <DIR_NAME> to automatically insert a license

To Pull From Gitlab Container Registry

• echo <PERSONAL_TOKEN> | docker login registry.gitlab.com -u "<YOUR_GITLAB_USERNAME>" --password-stdin
• docker pull registry.gitlab.com/<REPO>/<IMAGE>:<TAG>

VCS Tools

vcstool is a tool developed by the ROS community to manage multiple VCS repos (git, etc.). vcs works by finding a .repos which lists all repos to clone.

• Installation:

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    sudo apt install python3-vcstool
  

• Usage:

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    vcs custom --args <git commands>:
        - git status
  

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