Step 2: Before Starting Work on a Keyboard

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Keep your fork of the Keyboards repository in sync

Before starting any work on a keyboard, you should keep your keyboards fork in sync with our keyboards repository. This helps identify any potential merge conflicts that would occur with your keyboard. This also keeps the command line keyboard compiler up to date.

Note: Make sure to stash or commit any current work before creating/checking out a new branch for working on a another keyboard. This way each keyboard will be in a unique folder on a unique Git branch. You will create the Git branch later in Step 4.

git stash

Get the latest changes from the master repository and push them to your fork with these following commands:

cd /c/projects/keyboards
git checkout master
git fetch upstream
git merge upstream/master
git push origin master

Learn more about managing your fork and keeping your fork in sync.

Now let's check that we have the Keyman development tools for building a keyboard.

Step 3: Development Tools and Building a Keyboard