Tracking a different Crosswalk branch

If you want to track a Crosswalk branch other than master (e.g. a beta or stable branch), there are two different approaches you can use, described below.

Set the branch before the initial checkout

If you haven't checked out Crosswalk's source code yet, just pass the URL of the branch you want to checkout to the gclient config call. For example, to track the crosswalk-2 branch:

gclient config --name=src/xwalk \
  https://github.com/crosswalk-project/crosswalk.git@origin/crosswalk-2

Change the branch for an existing checkout

If you have already cloned Crosswalk and want to change the branch being tracked, you need to check out a new git branch and then edit your .gclient file.

For example, let's assume you want to track the crosswalk-2 branch. First of all, check out a new branch in your Crosswalk repository:

cd /path/to/src/xwalk
git checkout -b crosswalk-2 origin/crosswalk-2

Next, edit your .gclient file (generated above) and change the url entry. It should look like this:

"url": "https://github.com/crosswalk-project/crosswalk.git@origin/crosswalk-2",

After that, sync your code again:

gclient sync