Day 28: Thursday, April 17, 2014

  1. Read http://debuggable.com/posts/understanding-node-js:4bd98440-45e4-4a9a-8ef7-0f7ecbdd56cb. See also http://www.nodebeginner.org/#building-the-application-stack.
  2. Quiz on reading
  3. Discussion.
  4. Next week’s schedule: Tuesday (XSS and Selenium; DB; SIRS); Thursday (NastyGal, Grig Gheorghiu will speak via teleconf)
  5. This week’s homework will be: (a) finish out project points by Th; (b) fix stuff that I find in your homework, by following Th (two weeks).
  6. No class or final during final’s week!
  7. In class exercise on git merging.
  8. git merging prez

In class exercise: git merging

Brief description: check out cse491-mergez (https://github.com/ctb/cse491-mergez) and merge the fix_stddev and listcomp branches into master.

Longer description:

This code implements the calculation of standard deviation for a discrete random variable (see the Wikipedia page), with values taken from a single column text file.

Two separate improvements have been made to the codebase. Please merge them into a single branch.

Note: Be sure to take the time to look through the project and repository!

Workflow:

  1. Clone the repository:

    git clone https://github.com/ctb/cse491-mergez.git
    
  2. Get all of the branches:

    cd cse491-mergez
    git fetch origin
    
  3. Make sure you’re on master:

    git checkout master
    
  4. Get a list of branches, including remote ones:

    git branch -r
    
  5. Make a new merge branch to do the merge on:

    git checkout -b try_merge
    
  6. Merge in one of the two feature branches:

    git merge origin/listcomp
    

    and resolve merge conflicts, if any (see below).

  7. Merge in the other feature branch:

    git merge origin/fix_stddev
    

    and resolve merge conflicts, if any (see below).

  8. Go back to master.

    git checkout master
    
  9. Merge the ‘merge’ branch in:

    git merge try_merge
    
  10. (If you have time) Fork https://github.com/ctb/cse491-mergez, push your master branch to your own copy, and set up a pull request from your master to my master.

  11. Bask in the warm glow of success.

Resolving merge conflicts

When git merge encounters syntactically unmergeable code – where one change directly conflicts with the other branch – it will annotate the code with both versions:

<<<< HEAD

 (one version of conflicting code)

====

 (other version of conflicting code)

>>>> other

To clear this conflict, you need to (a) edit the code so it is syntactically and semantically correct, which means removing the <<<< etc annotations; and (b) do a ‘git add filename’ for each file you fixed, plus a ‘git commit’ to commit the changes. Then a ‘git status’ should report no conflicted files.

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