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This is a work-in-progress guide intended to help those that need to use Windows as their developer environment. It will address whatever issues developers commonly face, with hints/tools that have been tested and are in use by other OPNFV developers.

Setting up Git and Gerrit

Source: Bryan Sullivan, AT&T

There are multiple ways to get git/gerrit working on Windows. Here are two:

  1. Use Git for Windows
  2. Run a linux under VirtualBox, and use the guides for Linux (TO BE DESCRIBED)

Using Git for Windows

This procedure may be terse, but will be clarified as needed and will be re-tested to make sure nothing is missing (steps that I took to get this working may have been forgotten in fumbling toward a solution…).

  1. Install Putty (the ZIP file or installer package) from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
  2. if you don't have a public/private key pair yet, run PuTTYgen and generate a pair
  3. Install Git for Windows from http://www.git-scm.com/downloads
  4. … (more to come)
developer/getting_started/windows.1446068767.txt.gz · Last modified: 2015/10/28 21:46 by Bryan Sullivan