Quick Start: Reviewing and contributing more

Now that you followed this guide, you have a setup to continuously work with. It has hopefully not taken up much of your time.

With your environment, you can:

Note

Ensure that your current working directory is the one used in previous steps, here cd $HOME/work/TYPO3-Contribute.

Keep up to date with development

By executing this in your working environment, you can always catch up to the latest main TYPO3 version:

Stash away things you may be working on
```
git stash
```
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Reset to current upstream state
```
Build/Scripts/runTests.sh -s clean && \
    git fetch --all && \
    git reset --hard origin/main && \
    git pull --rebase && \
    ./Build/Scripts/runTests.sh -u && \
    ./Build/Scripts/runTests.sh -s composerInstall && \
    ddev typo3 cache:flush && \
    ddev typo3 cache:warmup && \
    ddev typo3 extension:setup
```
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This resets your local state to the the current upstream state, including recently merged changes. This may involve changes in Composer dependencies, database changes or changes in the Dependency Injection container configuration. The steps above are a fail-safe way to ensure a working environment:

Check status of the repository
```
git status
```
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... which should output something similar to following:
```
On branch main
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/main'.

nothing to commit, working tree clean
```
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Hint

You may want to create a Bash alias for this, if you do it more often. Also see Cleanup TYPO3 installation for details.

After that, you should also log into the TYPO3 backend and ensure via the Database Analyzer that your database is up to date.
Coordinate with the team

You can review and vote on other people's patches, gather knowledge and enjoy improving TYPO3 as a whole.

You can check out any Patch on gerrit on your updated instance:

Check out the patch and changeset by using the corresponding download link in Gerrit
```
git fetch https://review.typo3.org/Packages/TYPO3.CMS refs/changes/25/85025/1 \
    && git cherry-pick FETCH_HEAD
```
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Ensure working state for checkout change
```
./Build/Scripts/runTests.sh -s composerInstall && \
    ddev typo3 cache:flush && \
    ddev typo3 cache:warmup && \
    ddev typo3 extension:setup
```
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Also maybe execute 'Database Analyzer' and clear browser cache

After that you can git commit --amend && git push and publish new patch sets.

You can even commit and contribute on other people's patches - always make sure to ask first, before you do that.
Read on

Further information on reviewing and contributing: