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+# Getting started with git-appraise
+
+This file gives an example code-review workflow using git-appraise. It starts
+with cloning a repository and goes all the way through to browsing
+your submitted commits.
+
+The git-appraise tool is largely agnostic of what workflow you use, so feel
+free to change things to your liking, but this particular workflow should help
+you get started.
+
+## Cloning your repository
+
+Since you're using a code review tool, we'll assume that you have a URL that
+you can push to and pull from in order to collaborate with the rest of your team.
+
+First we'll create our local clone of the repository:
+```shell
+git clone ${URL} example-repo
+cd example-repo
+```
+
+If you are starting from an empty repository, then it's a good practice to add a
+README file explaining the purpose of the repository:
+
+```shell
+echo '# Example Repository' > README.md
+git add README.md
+git commit -m 'Added a README file to the repo'
+git push
+```
+
+## Creating our first review
+
+Generally, reviews in git-appraise are used to decide if the code in one branch
+(called the "source") is ready to merge into another branch (called the
+"target"). The meaning of each branch and the policies around merging into a
+branch vary from team to team, but for this example we'll use a simple practice
+called [GitHub Flow](https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/).
+
+Specifically, we'll create a new branch for a particular feature, review the
+changes to that branch against our master branch, and then delete the feature
+branch once we are done.
+
+### Creating our change
+
+Create the feature branch:
+```shell
+git checkout -b ${USER}/getting-started
+git push --set-upstream origin ${USER}/getting-started
+```
+
+... And make some changes to it:
+```shell
+echo "This is an example repository used for coming up to speed" >> README.md
+git commit -a -m "Added an explanation to the README file"
+git push
+```
+
+### Requesting the review
+
+Up to this point we've only used the regular commands that come with git. Now,
+we will use git-appraise to perform a review:
+
+Request a review:
+```shell
+git appraise request
+```
+
+The output of this will be a summary of the newly requested review:
+```
+Review requested:
+Commit: 1e6eb14c8014593843c5b5f29377585e4ed55304
+Target Ref: refs/heads/master
+Review Ref: refs/heads/ojarjur/getting-started
+Message: "Added an explanation to the README file"
+```
+
+Show the details of the current review:
+```shell
+git appraise show
+```
+
+```
+[pending] 1e6eb14c8014
+  Added an explanation to the README file
+  "refs/heads/ojarjur/getting-started" -> "refs/heads/master"
+  reviewers: ""
+  requester: "ojarjur@google.com"
+  build status: unknown
+  analyses:  No analyses available
+  comments (0 threads):
+```
+
+Show the changes included in the review:
+```shell
+git appraise show --diff
+```
+
+```
+diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
+index 08fde78..85c4208 100644
+--- a/README.md
++++ b/README.md
+@@ -1 +1,2 @@
+ # Example Repository
++This is an example repository used for coming up to speed
+```
+
+### Sending our updates to the remote repository
+
+Before a teammate can review our change, we have to make it available to them.
+This involves pushing both our commits, and our code review data to the remote
+repository:
+```shell
+git push
+git appraise pull
+git appraise push
+```
+
+The command `git appraise pull` is used to make sure that our local code review
+data includes everything from the remote repo before we try to push our changes
+back to it. If you forget to run this command, then the subsequent call to
+`git appraise push` might fail with a message that the push was rejected. If
+that happens, simply run `git appraise pull` and try again.
+
+## Reviewing the change
+
+Your teammates can review your changes using the same tool.
+
+Fetch the current data from the remote repository:
+```shell
+git fetch origin
+git appraise pull
+```
+
+List the open reviews:
+```shell
+git appraise list
+```
+
+The output of this command will be a list of entries formatted like this:
+```
+Loaded 1 open reviews:
+[pending] 1e6eb14c8014
+  Added an explanation to the README file
+```
+
+The text within the square brackets is the status of a review, and for open
+reviews will be one of "pending", "accepted", or "rejected". The text which
+follows the status is the hash of the first commit in the review. This is
+used to uniquely identify reviews, and most git-appraise commands will accept
+this hash as an argument in order to select the review to handle.
+
+For instance, we can see the details of a specific review using the "show"
+subcommand:
+```shell
+git appraise show 1e6eb14c8014
+```
+
+```
+[pending] 1e6eb14c8014
+  Added an explanation to the README file
+  "refs/heads/ojarjur/getting-started" -> "refs/heads/master"
+  reviewers: ""
+  requester: "ojarjur@google.com"
+  build status: unknown
+  analyses:  No analyses available
+  comments (0 threads):
+```
+
+... or, we can see the diff of the changes under review:
+```shell
+git appraise show --diff 1e6eb14c8014
+```
+
+```
+diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
+index 08fde78..85c4208 100644
+--- a/README.md
++++ b/README.md
+@@ -1 +1,2 @@
+ # Example Repository
++This is an example repository used for coming up to speed
+```
+
+Comments can be added either for the entire review, or on individual lines:
+```shell
+git appraise comment -f README.md -l 2 -m "Ah, so that's what this is" 1e6eb14c8014
+```
+
+These comments then show up in the output of `git appraise show`:
+```shell
+git appraise show 1e6eb14c8014
+```
+
+```
+[pending] 1e6eb14c8014
+  Added an explanation to the README file
+  "refs/heads/ojarjur/getting-started" -> "refs/heads/master"
+  reviewers: ""
+  requester: "ojarjur@google.com"
+  build status: unknown
+  analyses:  No analyses available
+  comments (1 threads):
+    "README.md"@1e6eb14c8014
+    |# Example Repository
+    |This is an example repository used for coming up to speed
+    comment: bd4c11ecafd443c9d1dde6035e89804160cd7487
+      author: ojarjur@google.com
+      time:   Fri Dec 18 10:58:54 PST 2015
+      status: fyi
+      Ah, so that's what this is
+```
+
+Comments initially only exist in your local repository, so to share them
+with the rest of your team you have to push your review changes back:
+
+```shell
+git appraise pull
+git appraise push
+```
+
+When the change is ready to be merged, you indicate that by accepting the
+review:
+
+```shell
+git appraise accept 1e6eb14c8014
+git appraise pull
+git appraise push
+```
+
+The updated status of the review will be visible in the output of "show":
+```shell
+git appraise show 1e6eb14c8014
+```
+
+```
+[accepted] 1e6eb14c8014
+  Added an explanation to the README file
+  "refs/heads/ojarjur/getting-started" -> "refs/heads/master"
+  reviewers: ""
+  requester: "ojarjur@google.com"
+  build status: unknown
+  analyses:  No analyses available
+  comments (2 threads):
+    "README.md"@1e6eb14c8014
+    |# Example Repository
+    |This is an example repository used for coming up to speed
+    comment: bd4c11ecafd443c9d1dde6035e89804160cd7487
+      author: ojarjur@google.com
+      time:   Fri Dec 18 10:58:54 PST 2015
+      status: fyi
+      Ah, so that's what this is
+    comment: 4034c60e6ed6f24b01e9a581087d1ab86d376b81
+      author: ojarjur@google.com
+      time:   Fri Dec 18 11:02:45 PST 2015
+      status: fyi
+```
+
+## Submitting the change
+
+Once a review has been accepted, you can merge it with the tool:
+
+```shell
+git appraise submit --merge 1e6eb14c8014
+git push
+```
+
+The submit command will pop up a text editor where you can edit the default
+merge message. That message will be used to create a new commit that is a
+merge of the previous commit on the master branch, and the history of all
+of your changes to the review. You can see what this looks like using
+the `git log --graph` command:
+
+```
+*   commit 3a4d1b8cd264b921c858185f2c36aac283b45e49
+|\  Merge: b404fa3 1e6eb14
+| | Author: Omar Jarjur <ojarjur@google.com>
+| | Date:   Fri Dec 18 11:06:24 2015 -0800
+| | 
+| |     Submitting review 1e6eb14c8014
+| |     
+| |     Added an explanation to the README file
+| |   
+| * commit 1e6eb14c8014593843c5b5f29377585e4ed55304
+|/  Author: Omar Jarjur <ojarjur@google.com>
+|   Date:   Fri Dec 18 10:49:56 2015 -0800
+|   
+|       Added an explanation to the README file
+|  
+* commit b404fa39ae98950d95ab06012191f58507e51d12
+  Author: Omar Jarjur <ojarjur@google.com>
+  Date:   Fri Dec 18 10:48:06 2015 -0800
+  
+      Added a README file to the repo
+```
+
+This is sometimes called a "merge bubble". When the review is simply accepted
+as is, these do not add much value. However, reviews often go through several
+rounds of changes before they are accepted. By using these merge commits, we
+can preserve both the full history of individual reviews, and the high-level
+(review-based) history of the repository.
+
+This can be seen with the history of git-appraise itself. We can see the high
+level review history using `git log --first-parent`:
+
+```
+commit 83c4d770cfde25c943de161c0cac54d714b7de38
+Merge: 9a607b8 931d1b4
+Author: Omar Jarjur <ojarjur@google.com>
+Date:   Fri Dec 18 09:46:10 2015 -0800
+
+    Submitting review 8cb887077783
+    
+    Fix a bug where requesting a review would fail with an erroneous message.
+    
+    We were figuring out the set of commits to include in a review by
+    listing the commits between the head of the target ref and the head of
+    the source ref. However, this only works if the source ref is a
+    fast-forward of the target ref.
+    
+    This commit changes it so that we use the merge-base of the target and
+    source refs as the starting point instead of the target ref.
+
+commit 9a607b8529d7483e5b323303c73da05843ff3ca9
+Author: Harry Lawrence <hazbo@gmx.com>
+Date:   Fri Dec 18 10:24:00 2015 +0000
+
+    Added links to Eclipse and Jenkins plugins
+    
+    As suggested in #11
+
+commit 8876cfff2ed848d50cb559c05d44e11b95ca791c
+Merge: 00c0e82 1436c83
+Author: Omar Jarjur <ojarjur@google.com>
+Date:   Thu Dec 17 12:46:32 2015 -0800
+
+    Submitting review 09aecba64027
+    
+    Force default git editor when omitting -m
+    For review comments, the absence of the -m flag will now attempt to load the
+    user's default git editor.
+    
+    i.e. git appraise comment c0a643ff39dd
+    
+    An initial draft as discussed in #8
+    
+    I'm still not sure whether or not the file that is saved is in the most appropriate place or not. I like the idea of it being relative to the project although it could have gone in `/tmp` I suppose.
+
+commit 00c0e827e5b86fb9d200f474d4f65f43677cbc6c
+Merge: 31209ce 41fde0b
+Author: Omar Jarjur <ojarjur@google.com>
+Date:   Wed Dec 16 17:10:06 2015 -0800
+
+    Submitting review 2c9bff89f0f8
+    
+    Improve the error messages returned when a git command fails.
+    
+    Previously, we were simply cascading the error returned by the instance
+    of exec.Command. However, that winds up just being something of the form
+    "exit status 128", with all of the real error message going to the
+    Stderr field.
+    
+    As such, this commit changes the behavior to save the data written to
+    stderr, and use it to construct a new error to return.
+
+...
+```
+
+Here you see a linear view of the reviews that have been submitted, but if we
+run the command `git log --oneline --graph`, then we can see that the full
+history of each individual review is also available:
+
+```
+*   83c4d77 Submitting review 8cb887077783
+|\  
+| *   931d1b4 Merge branch 'master' into ojarjur/fix-request-bug
+| |\  
+| |/  
+|/|   
+* | 9a607b8 Added links to Eclipse and Jenkins plugins
+| *   c7be567 Merge branch 'master' into ojarjur/fix-request-bug
+| |\  
+| |/  
+|/|   
+* |   8876cff Submitting review 09aecba64027
+|\ \  
+| * | 1436c83 Using git var GIT_EDITOR rather than git config
+| * | 09aecba Force default git editor when omitting -m
+|/ /  
+| * 8cb8870 Fix a bug where requesting a review would fail with an erroneous message.
+|/  
+*   00c0e82 Submitting review 2c9bff89f0f8
+...
+```
+
+## Cleaning up
+
+Now that our feature branch has been merged into master, we can delete it:
+
+```shell
+git branch -d ${USER}/getting-started
+git push origin --delete ${USER}/getting-started
+```