GIT.BI6.US

Hosted Repositories

This is the list of public GIT repositories hosted on GIT.BI6.US.

HTTPS://GIT.BI6.US/TEST/

Documentation and history describing how to use GIT and what happens when various common commands are used. Both porcelain and plumbing commands are considered.

HTTPS://GIT.BI6.US/TQT/

Documentation regarding the Quiet Type conventions and a parser to convert Quiet Type text files into a document tree which can be used by other tools.

Cloning Public Repositories

To clone a public repository hosted here, simply use the git clone command with the repository's HTTPS URL. For example, the command for cloning the TEST repository is:

$ git clone https://GIT.BI6.US/TEST/

By convention, this web site capitalizes domain names. The authority (domain name) of URLs listed here may be lower cased, but case is significant in the path section of the URL.

Submitting Changes to Public Repositories

Public repositories are read-only. There is no way to push a change to a repository hosted through the public interface. Consequently, the public interface does not support submitting a merge request.

You can, however, email a patch to the repository's maintainer. This acts as both a push and a pull request.

Suppose you wanted to change something in the repo at https://GIT.BI6.US/TEST/. To check out the repo, make a change, commit the change and then produce a patch, you would do something like this:

Check out the repo and note the current commit id:

The clone command shouldn't be foreign to frequent git users. But we use the rev-parse command to note the most recent commit id on the main branch.
```
git clone https://GIT.BI6.US/TEST/
cd TEST
git rev-parse HEAD
```
Make a change of some sort.

In the real world you would make a real change. But as an example, we're just going to create a new file with the current date in it.
```
date >> datefile.txt
```

Commit the change.

git add datefile.txt
git commit -m "add date file"

Create the patch.

This works only if you've made a single local commit. The git log command will show you a list of commits. Verify that there's only one new commit and then run the format-patch command:
```
git log
git format-patch HEAD~1
```
If you've made multiple commits, it's okay. We just have to change the number after the HEAD. If you've made 2 commits, you would use this command:
```
git format-patch HEAD~2
```
If you made 3 commits, use this command:
```
git format-patch HEAD~3
```
The format-patch command will create one patch file for each commit. Each execution of the format-patch command will produce a new .patch file with a name derived from a serial number and a portion of the commit message. For example, the first commit operation in the previous step would produce a patch file named 0001-add-date-file.patch.
(optional) Email the maintainer a patch

Each project has it's own maintainer, but if you can't find it or you get no response, email OhMeadhbh+git@gmail.com.

Document Metadata

Author	Meadhbh Hamrick
Created	2025-09-17T11:00:00-0700
Revision	v1
Canonical	HTTPS://GIT.BI6.US/