Home Assistant

Catching Up With Reality

If you’re taking a while developing your feature and would like to catch up with what’s in the current Home Assistant dev branch, you can use git rebase to do so. This will pull the latest Home Assistant changes locally, rewind your commits, bring in the latest changes from Home Assistant and then replay all of your commits on top.

# Run this from your feature branch
$ git fetch upstream dev  # to pull the latest changes into a local dev branch
$ git rebase upstream/dev # to put those changes into your feature branch before your changes

If rebase detects conflicts, you can repeat the following process until all changes have been resolved:

  1. git status will show you the file with the conflict.
  2. Edit the file and resolving the lines between <<<< | >>>>
  3. Add the modified file git add <file> or git add .
  4. Continue rebase git rebase --continue
  5. Repeat until you’ve resolved all conflicts.

There is other workflows that is covered in detail in the Github documentation. Add an additional remote after you clone your fork.

$ git remote add upstream https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant.git

and then simply git pull --rebase upstream dev.