GlossaryΒΆ
- Repository
A Git repository in its strict sense, the highest granularity allowed by the Git version control system.
- Manifest repository
A repository that contains a
west.ymlfile in its root folder and can therefore act as center of a repository star topology.- West project
Any of the listed repositories inside the
west.ymlfile in a manifest repository.- Contribution
A change to the codebase sent to a remote repository for inclusion.
- Upmerge
The act of updating a downstream repository with a new revision of its upstream counterpart.
- Clone
A local copy of a remote Git repository obtained with
git clone.- Fork
A server-hosted copy of a repository (upstream) that intends to follow the changes made in the original repository as time goes by, while at the same time keeping some other changes unique to it.
- Soft fork
A fork that contains a very small set of changes when compared to its upstream.
- GitHub fork
A GitHub fork is a copy of a repository inside GitHub, that allows the user to create a Pull Request.
- Upstream
The repository from which a downstream is forked off.
- Downstream
The repository that is forked off an upstream.
- nRF repository
An nRF Connect SDK repository that does not have an externally maintained, open-source upstream. It is exclusive to Nordic development.
- OSS repository
An nRF Connect SDK repository that tracks an upstream Open Source Software counterpart that is externally maintained.
- Commit
A Git commit, including a unique SHA and a commit message.
- Patch
See Commit.
- Commit tag
A tag prepended to the first line of the commit message to ease filtering and identification of particular commit types.
- Pull Request
A GitHub Pull Request, a set of commits that are sent for code review using GitHub.