eng/vc-authors: Convert wiki page to Rest (GCI 2018)

Converted https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/Developer/Git/Committers
to Rest, and TBDs and wiki TODOs into comments. Also changed http
links to https (the ones that are possible), corrected some typos,
created a folder for eng images and added some formatting.

This work was part of GCI 2018.

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 Software Development (Git Writers)
 **********************************
 
-TBD - Convert https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/Developer/Git/Committers
-TBD - and insert here.
+.. COMMENT: TBD - Convert https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/Developer/Git/Committers
+.. COMMENT: TBD - and insert here.
+
+.. COMMENT: TBD - Some guidelines for anyone who wishes to contribute to
+.. COMMENT: TBD - rtems... Patches? Pull Requests?...
+
+ The preferred workflow for making changes to RTEMS is to push patches to a
+ committer's personal repository in public view and then merge changes from
+ there. For working on enhancements or bug fixes committers are encouraged to
+ push to branches on their personal repositories and to merge into the main
+ RTEMS repository from their personal repository. Personal branches should
+ not be pushed to the RTEMS repository.
+
+SSH Access
+----------
+
+Currently all committer's should have an ssh account on the main git server,
+dispatch.rtems.org. If you have been granted commit access and do have an
+account on dispatch.rtems.org one should be requested on the devel@… list.
+SSH access for git uses key logins instead of passwords. The key should be at
+least 1024bits in length.
+
+The public repositories can by cloned with
+
+.. code-block:: shell
+
+  git clone ssh://user@dispatch.rtems.org/data/git/rtems.git
+
+Or replace `rtems.git` with another repo to clone another one.
+
+Personal Repository
+-------------------
+Personal repositories keep the clutter away from the master repository. A
+user with a personal repository can make commits, create and delete branches,
+plus more without interfering with the master repository. Commits to the
+master repository generate email to the vc@… list and development type commits
+by a developer would only add noise and lessen the effectiveness of the commit
+list
+
+A committer should maintain a personal clone of the RTEMS repository through
+which all changes merged into the RTEMS head are sent. The personal repository
+is also a good place for committers to push branches that contain works in
+progress. The following instructions show how to setup a personal repositor
+that by default causes commits to go to your private local repository and
+pushes to go to your publicly visible personal repository. The RTEMS head is
+configured as a remote repository named 'upstream' to which you can push
+changes that have been approved for merging into RTEMS.
+
+Branches aren't automatically pushed until you tell git to do the initial push
+after which the branch is pushed automatically. In order to keep code private
+just put it on a branch in your local clone and do not push the branch.
+
+Create a personal repository
+----------------------------
+
+Set up the server side repository. In the following substitute user with your
+username.
+
+.. code-block:: shell
+
+  # ssh git.rtems.org
+  [user@git ~]$ ln -s /data/git/user git
+  [user@git ~]$ ls -l
+  lrwxrwxrwx 1 user rtems 16 Feb  1 11:52 git -> /data/git/user
+  [user@git ~]$ cd git
+  [user@git git]$ git clone --mirror /data/git/rtems.git
+
+Provide a description for the repository, for example "Clone of master
+repository."
+
+.. code-block:: shell
+
+  [user@git git]$ echo "Clone of master repository." > rtems.git/description
+  [user@git git]$ logout
+
+Clone the repository on your local machine
+
+.. code-block:: shell
+
+  # git clone ssh://user@dispatch.rtems.org/home/user/git/rtems.git
+  # cd rtems
+
+Add the RTEMS repository as a remote repository and get the remote tags
+and branches
+
+.. code-block:: shell
+
+  # git remote add upstream ssh://user@dispatch.rtems.org/data/git/rtems.git
+  # git fetch upstream
+
+After a little while you should be able to see your personal repo
+at https://git.rtems.org/@USER@/rtems.git/ and you can create other
+repositories in your git directory that will propagate
+to https://git.rtems.org/@USER@/ if you need. For example, `joel`'s personal
+repos appear at https://git.rtems.org/joel/.
+
+
+.. figure:: ../images/eng/Git-personalrepo.png
+  :width: 50%
+  :align: center
+  :alt: Git Personal Repositories
+
+Check your setup
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. code-block:: shell
+
+  git remote show origin
+
+Should print something similar to
+
+.. code-block:: shell
+
+ * remote origin
+   Fetch URL: ssh://user@dispatch.rtems.org/home/user/git/rtems.git
+   Push  URL: ssh://user@dispatch.rtems.org/home/user/git/rtems.git
+   HEAD branch: master
+   Remote branches:
+     4.10   tracked
+     4.8    tracked
+     4.9    tracked
+     master tracked
+   Local branch configured for 'git pull':
+     master merges with remote master
+   Local ref configured for 'git push':
+     master pushes to master (up to date)
+
+Push commits to personal repo master from local master
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. code-block:: shell
+
+  # git push
+
+Push a branch onto personal repo
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. code-block:: shell
+
+  # git push origin branchname
+
+Update from upstream master (RTEMS head)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+ When you have committed changes on a branch that is private (hasn't been
+ pushed to your personal repo) then you can use rebase to obtain a linear
+ history and avoid merge commit messages.
+
+.. code-block:: shell
+
+  # git checkout new_features
+  # git pull --rebase upstream master
+
+If you cannot do a fast-forward merge then you could use the ``--no-commit``
+flag to prevent merge from issuing an automatic merge commit message.
+
+When you have committed changes on a branch that is public/shared with another
+developer you should not rebase that branch.
+
+GIT Push Configuration
+----------------------
+
+People with write access to the main repository should make sure that they
+push the right branch with the git push command. The above setup ensures
+that git push will not touch the main repository, which is identified as
+upstream, unless you specify the upstream (by ``git push upstream master``).
+
+Lets suppose we have a test branch intended for integration into the master
+branch of the main repository.
+
+.. code-block:: shell
+
+  # git branch
+    master
+   *  test
+
+There are two options for pushing with the branch. First,
+
+.. code-block:: shell
+
+  # git push origin test
+
+Will push the test branch to the personal repository. To delete the remote
+branch
+
+.. code-block:: shell
+
+  # git push origin :test
+
+You'll still need to delete your local branch if you are done with it.
+
+If you are going to work exclusively with one branch for a while, you might
+want to configure git to automatically push that branch when you use git push.
+By default git push will use the local master branch, but you can use the
+`test` branch as the source of your changes:
+
+.. code-block:: shell
+
+  # git config remote.origin.push test:master
+
+Now git push will merge into your master branch on your personal repository.
+You can also setup a remote branch:
+
+.. code-block:: shell
+
+  # git config remote.origin.push test:test
+
+You can see what branch is configured for pushing with
+
+.. code-block:: shell
+
+  # git remote show origin
+
+And reset to the default
+
+.. code-block:: shell
+
+  # git config remote.origin.push master
+
+Pull a Developer's Repo
+-----------------------
+
+The procedures for creating personal repositories ensure that every developer
+can post branches that anyone else can review. To pull a developer's personal
+repository into your local RTEMS git clone, just add a new remote repo:
+
+.. code-block:: shell
+
+  # git remote add devname git://dispatch.rtems.org/devname/rtems.git
+  # git fetch devname
+  # git remote show devname
+  # git branch -a
+
+Replace devname with the developer's user name on git, which you can see by
+accessing https://git.rtems.org. Now you can switch to the branches
+for this developer.
+
+Use a tracking branch if the developer's branch is changing:
+
+.. code-block:: shell
+
+  # git branch --track new_feature devname/new_feature
+
+Committing
+----------
+
+Ticket Updates
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Our trac instance supports updating a related ticket with the commit message.
+
+Any references to a ticket for example #1234 will insert the message into
+he ticket as an 'update'. No command is required.
+
+Closing a ticket can be done by prefixing the ticket number with any of the
+following commands:
+
+``close``, ``closed``, ``closes``, ``fix``, ``fixed``, or ``fixes``
+
+For example:
+
+``closes #1234``
+
+``This is a random update it closes #1234 and updates #5678``
+
+Commands
+~~~~~~~~
+
+When merging someone's work, whether your own or otherwise, we have some
+suggested procedures to follow.
+
+* Never work in the master branch. Checkout a new branch and apply
+  patches/commits to it.
+* Before pushing upstream:
+  - Update master by fetching from the server
+  - Rebase the working branch against the updated master
+  - Push the working branch to the server master
+
+The basic workflow looks like
+
+.. code-block:: shell
+
+  # git checkout -b somebranch upstream/master
+  # patch .. git add/rm/etc
+  # git commit ...
+  # git pull --rebase upstream master
+  # git push upstream somebranch:master
+
+If someone pushed since you updated the server rejects your push until you
+are up to date.
+
+For example a workflow where you will commit a series of patches from
+``../patches/am/`` directory:
+
+.. code-block:: shell
+
+  # git checkout -b am
+  # git am ../patches/am*
+  # git pull --rebase upstream master
+  # git push upstream am:master
+  # git checkout master
+  # git pull upstream master
+  # git log
+  # git branch -d am
+  # git push
+
+The git log stage will show your newly pushed patches if everything worked
+properly, and you can delete the am branch created. The git push at the end
+will push the changes up to your personal repository.
+
+Another way to do this which pushes directly to the upstream is shown here
+in an example which simply (and quickly) applies a patch to the branch:
+
+.. code-block:: shell
+
+  git checkout -b rtems4.10 --track remotes/upstream/4.10
+  cat /tmp/sp.diff | patch
+  vi sparc.t
+  git add sparc.t
+  git commit -m "sparc.t: Correct for V8/V9"
+  git push upstream rtems4.10:4.10
+  git checkout master
+  git log
+  git branch -d rtems4.10
+
+Pushing Multiple Commits
+------------------------
+
+A push with more than one commit results in Trac missing them. Please use the
+following script to push a single commit at a time:
+
+.. code-block:: shell
+
+  #! /bin/sh
+  commits=$(git log --format='%h' origin/master..HEAD | tail -r)
+  for c in $commits
+  do
+    cmd=$(echo $c | sed 's%\(.*\)%git push origin \1:master%')
+    echo $cmd
+  $cmd
+  done
+
+Ooops!
+------
+
+So you pushed something upstream and broke the repository. First things first:
+stop what you're doing and notify devel@... so that (1) you can get help and
+(2) no one pulls from the broken repo. For an extended outage also notify
+users@.... Now, breathe easy and let's figure out what happened. One thing
+that might work is to just `undo the push
+<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1270514/undoing-a-git-push>`_. To get an
+idea of what you did, run ``git reflog``, which might be useful for getting
+assistance in undoing whatever badness was done.