This document outlines some of the conventions on development workflow, commit message formatting, contact points and other resources to make it easier to get your contribution accepted.
- Fork the repository on GitHub.
- Read the README.md for build instructions.
- Play with the project, submit bugs, submit patches!
Developing TiDB-Lightning requires:
- Go 1.13.5+
- An internet connection to download the dependencies
Simply run make
to build the program.
make
This project contains unit tests and integration tests with coverage collection. See tests/README.md for how to execute and add tests.
TiDB-Lightning contains some generated source code for parsing. To modify them, you also need to install:
Run make data_parsers
to regenerate these source code.
TiDB-Lightning manages dependencies using Go 1.11 module. To add or update a dependency, either
- Use the
go mod edit
command to change the dependency, or - Edit
go.mod
and then runmake update
to update the checksum.
This is a rough outline of what a contributor's workflow looks like:
- Create a topic branch from where you want to base your work. This is usually
master
. - Make commits of logical units and add test case if the change fixes a bug or adds new functionality.
- Run tests and make sure all the tests are passed.
- Make sure your commit messages are in the proper format (see below).
- Push your changes to a topic branch in your fork of the repository.
- Submit a pull request.
- Your PR must receive LGTMs from two maintainers.
Thanks for your contributions!
The coding style suggested by the Golang community is used in TiDB-Lightning. See the style doc for details.
Please follow this style to make TiDB-Lightning easy to review, maintain and develop.
We follow a rough convention for commit messages that is designed to answer two questions: what changed and why. The subject line should feature the what and the body of the commit should describe the why.
restore: add comment for variable declaration
Improve documentation.
The format can be described more formally as follows:
<subsystem>: <what changed>
<BLANK LINE>
<why this change was made>
<BLANK LINE>
<footer>(optional)
The first line is the subject and should be no longer than 70 characters, the second line is always blank, and other lines should be wrapped at 80 characters. This allows the message to be easier to read on GitHub as well as in various git tools.
If the change affects more than one subsystem, you can use comma to separate them like restore,mydump:
.
If the change affects many subsystems, you can use *
instead, like *:
.
For the why part, if no specific reason for the change, you can use one of some generic reasons like "Improve documentation.", "Improve performance.", "Improve robustness.", "Improve test coverage."
This repository is one of the many components forming the whole TiDB-Lightning Toolset.
The source code of tikv-importer
can be found in the TiKV project:
https://github.com/tikv/tikv/tree/master/src/import/
The SQL→KV encoder is part of the TiDB project: https://github.com/pingcap/tidb
The gRPC interface between tidb-lightning
and tikv-importer
is found in the
kvproto
repository: https://github.com/pingcap/kvproto