Forking Robolectric

I wanted to fork out Robolectric's Android sample test project as a starting point to writing my own unit tests which can run on JVM. Here are the steps I took :


Step-1: Click on "Fork" to create a fork on github for Robolectric.git 

Step-2: Clone your fork in your local machine:

git clone https://github.com/<user>/RobolectricSample.git

Step-3:  cd RobolectricSample/
Step-4: To keep track of original repository, add upstream

git remote add upstream https://github.com/pivotal/RobolectricSample.git

Note: You can bring original repository's changes in your working space by this command:

git fetch upstream

Merge changes from upstream (original repo) into your forked repo:

git merge upstream/master

Step-5: Pushing changes to forked repo:

git push origin master

Quick guide to set up Git on Mac-OSX

There is plenty of information available online about setting up Git on Mac. Here are the steps I followed to setup git on my brand new macbook.

Step 1: Install Git from here. At the time of writing, the latest Git's version is 1.8.2.
Step 2: Double click the .dmg file and follow the installer.
Step 3: Open a new terminal. Yes ! its important to open up a new one. git command may not be available in the old one.
Step 4: Configure your git !

Configuring Git

• Configuring Username

git config --global user.name "Your Name"

• Configuring Email

git config --global user.email "Your email"

If you're not very comfortable with command line, then you can use UI "GitHub for Mac" to do all tedious job for you. There are more Git Clients available to try!