VTK::IOXDMF2

The IO/Xdmf2 directory contains a reduced distribution of the xdmf2/vtk (pv branch) source tree with only the library source code needed by VTK. It is not a submodule; the actual content is part of our source tree and changes can be made and committed directly.

We update from upstream using Git’s “subtree” merge strategy. A special branch contains commits of upstream xdmf2/vtk snapshots and nothing else. No Git ref points explicitly to the head of this branch, but it is merged into our history.

Update xdmf2/vtk from upstream as follows. Create a local branch to explicitly reference the upstream snapshot branch head:

git branch xdmf2vtk-upstream f40916ae

Use a temporary directory to checkout the branch:

mkdir xdmf2vtk-tmp cd xdmf2vtk-tmp git init git pull .. xdmf2vtk-upstream rm -rf *

Now place the (reduced) xdmf2/vtk content in this directory. See instructions shown by

git log f40916ae

for help extracting the content from the upstream tarball. Then run the following commands to commit the new version. Substitute the appropriate date and version number:

git add –all

GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=’XDMF Developers’
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=’xdmf@lists.kitware.com’
GIT_AUTHOR_DATE=’2012-08-01 16:14:03 -0500’
git commit -m ‘xdmf2/vtk 2012-08-01 (reduced)’ && git commit –amend

Edit the commit message to describe the procedure used to obtain the content. Then push the changes back up to the main local repository:

git push .. HEAD:xdmf2vtk-upstream cd .. rm -rf xdmf2vtk-tmp

Create a topic in the main repository on which to perform the update:

git checkout -b update-xdmf2 master

Merge the xdmf2vtk-upstream branch as a subtree:

git merge -s recursive -X subtree=IO/Xdmf2
xdmf2vtk-upstream

If there are conflicts, resolve them and commit. Build and test the tree. Commit any additional changes needed to succeed.

Finally, run

git rev-parse –short=8 xdmf2vtk-upstream

to get the commit from which the xdmf2vtk-upstream branch must be started on the next update. Edit the “git branch xdmf2vtk-upstream” line above to record it, and commit this file.