Who needs to read this page?

Github and MediaPortal 1 are open to read for everybody. 

If you are a team member who wants to change code and push it to our Github repository, you need to have read/write access to the repository. On the MediaPortal 1 site at Github, Github provides different Git URLs which can be used in different situations. To have read/write access, you need to connect your local Git repository with a read/write URL, typically the SSH URL shown at the Source page of the MediaPortal 1 site on Github. To setup your system and to become able to push changes to Github, you can read the following guide to set-up your system. It depends a bit from your configuration which steps are exactly needed. For example, I use GitExtensions and TortoiseGit both together with msysgit. Others might use another configuration.

Needed Software

First of all you need to download the following programs:

• Git for Windows (Git-1.8.0-preview20121022.exe)
• TortoiseGit (TortoiseGit-1.7.15 / 32bit or 64bit depend of your OS)

During this installation you have to set some important settings. Please be sure that you set them correctly.

Installing msysGit

• Start Installation program and follow the assistant
• at "Adjust your PATH environment" select "Run Git from Windows Command Prompt"
  
  

• at "Configuring the line ending conversions" select "Checkout Windows-style, commit Unix-style line endings"
  
  

Installing TortoiseGit

• Start Installation program and follow the assistant
• At "Choose SSH Client" select "OpenSSH, Git default SSH Client."
  
  

Create a SSH-Key

• Refer to this link to create you SSH key and insert into your GITHUB account setting.

Config TortoiseGit

• Right click in the Explorer window on a file or an directory to call up the context menu
• Select TortoiseGIT->Settings
• Select Config
• Input your Name and Email from your GitHub account
  
  

Download The MediaPortal-1 repo

• Right click in the Explorer window blank 
• Select GIT Clone...
• Select URL : ssh://git@github.com/MediaPortal/MediaPortal-1
• Directory will be filled : D:\MediaPortal-1
• Click OK
• Enter the password created from SSH setup.
• Repo will be clone.