Using This Book

This Web page has the following chapters and appendices:

• Contributing describes how to start contributing to the gawk project.
• Using Git introduces the Git distributed source code management system.
• Configuring git describes some initial set-up you need to do before using Git seriously.
• Development without commit access gets into the meat of the development workflow, describing how to work if you don’t have commit access to the Savannah repository.
• Development with commit access continues the discussion, covering what’s different when you can commit directly to the Savannah repository.
• General practices describes general development practices used by the gawk development team.
• Repo Maintenance presents several different things you need to know about to keep your repo in good shape.
• Development Stuff describes some important points you should be familiar with in order to participate in gawk development and presents some tools that may make your work easier.
• Cheat Sheet provides a short “cheat sheet” summarizing all the Git commands referenced in this Web page.
• Resources provides a few pointers to Internet resources for learning more about Git.