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First Contribution to Swift
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Getting Swift
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Swift's source code is hosted on github and managed with git.  The current
trunk can be checked out like this:

    ``git clone https://github.com/openstack/swift.git``

This will clone the Swift repository under your account.

A source tarball for the latest release of Swift is available on the
`launchpad project page <https://launchpad.net/swift>`_.

Prebuilt packages for Ubuntu and RHEL variants are available.

* `Swift Ubuntu Packages <https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/swift>`_
* `Swift RDO Packages <https://www.rdoproject.org/Repositories>`_

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Source Control Setup
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Swift uses `git` for source control. The OpenStack
`Developer's Guide <http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html>`_
describes the steps for setting up Git and all the necessary accounts for
contributing code to Swift.

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Changes to Swift
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Once you have the source code and source control set up, you can make your
changes to Swift.

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Testing
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The `Development Guidelines <development_guidelines>`_ describes the testing
requirements before submitting Swift code.

In summary, you can execute tox from the swift home directory (where you
checked out the source code):

    ``tox``

Tox will present tests results. Notice that in the beginning, it is very common
to break many coding style guidelines.

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Proposing changes to Swift
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The OpenStack
`Developer's Guide <http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html>`_
describes the most common `git` commands that you will need.

Following is a list of the commands that you need to know for your first
contribution to Swift:

To clone a copy of Swift:

    ``git clone https://github.com/openstack/swift.git``

Under the swift directory, set up the Gerrit repository. The following command
configures the repository to know about Gerrit and makes the Change-Id commit
hook get installed. You only need to do this once:

    ``git review -s``

To create your development branch (substitute branch_name for a name of your
choice:

    ``git checkout -b <branch_name>``

To check the files that have been updated in your branch:

    ``git status``

To check the differences between your branch and the repository:

    ``git diff``

Assuming you have not added new files, you commit all your changes using:

    ``git commit -a``

Read the `Summary of Git commit message structure <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/GitCommitMessages?%22Summary%20of%20Git%20commit%20message%20structure%22#Summary_of_Git_commit_message_structure>`_
for best practices on writing the commit message. When you are ready to send
your changes for review use:

    ``git review``

If successful, Git response message will contain a URL you can use to track your
changes.

If you need to make further changes to the same review, you can commit them
using:

    ``git commit -a --amend``

This will commit the changes under the same set of changes you issued earlier.
Notice that in order to send your latest version for review, you will still
need to call:

    ``git review``

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Tracking your changes
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After you proposed your changes to Swift, you can track the review in:

* `<https://review.openstack.org>`_

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Troubleshooting
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You may run into the following error when starting Swift if you rebase
your commit using:

    ``git rebase``

.. code-block:: python

   Traceback (most recent call last):
       File "/usr/local/bin/swift-init", line 5, in <module>
           from pkg_resources import require
       File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2749, in <module>
           working_set = WorkingSet._build_master()
       File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 446, in _build_master
           return cls._build_from_requirements(__requires__)
       File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 459, in _build_from_requirements
           dists = ws.resolve(reqs, Environment())
       File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 628, in resolve
           raise DistributionNotFound(req)
   pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: swift==2.3.1.devXXX
   (where XXX represents a dev version of Swift).

This happens because `git rebase` will retrieve code for a different version of
Swift in the development stream, but the start scripts under `/usr/local/bin` have
not been updated. The solution is to execute the following command under the swift
directory (which contains `setup.py`):

    ``sudo python setup.py develop``