On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 03:29:59AM -0500, Dave Mielke wrote: > Hi: > > Brltty is now being maintained within a git (rather than a subversion) source > repository. Cloning should be done from: > > [email protected]:brltty/brltty.git > > If any of you have already discovered this repository, please reclone. It's > former contents were experimental and have now been overwritten. > > The subversion repository is no longer being updated as of the release of > brltty-5.0. For those of you who aren't familiar with git but who used to use > subversion, here are a few commands that'll come in handy: > > Instead of doing "svn checkout", you should now do: > > git clone [email protected]:brltty/brltty.git > I tried this but I can't get in, it asks for the passphrase belonging to my identity and when I type that it hangs up with, permission denied.
> This'll create a brltty subdirectory. If you'd prefer to create a different > directory, then, as with the "svn checkout" command, you can add that > directory's path as an additional parameter. > > After cloning the repository, again as with subversion, you'd cd into the > newly > created directory. By default, you'll be seeing the latest development code > as > of that time. You can then, from time to time as needed, update to the new > latest development code by doing "git pull" (which works essentially like > "svn > update"). > > If you'd like to switch to the code for a specific brltty release, then you'd > use a command like this: > > git checkout BRLTTY-release > > For example: > > git checkout BRLTTY-5.0 > > Note that BRLTTY, here, is in all uppercase. > > To see which brltty releases you can have a look at, use this command: > > git tag > > Note that the subversion repository only contained brltty releases back to > 3.0 > whereas the git repository now additionally contains many releases earlier > than > that. > > To get back to the latest development code, use this command: > > git checkout master > > That should be enough to get you going. If you have any questions regarding > this change, don't hesitate to ask. > > -- > Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | The Bible is the very Word of God. > Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | http://Mielke.cc/bible/ > EMail: [email protected] | Canada K2A 1H7 | http://FamilyRadio.com/ > _______________________________________________ > This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. > To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] > For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty -- Adri P. van Bloois Antonlaan 104 email: [email protected] 3701 VG Zeist voice: +31-(0)-30-6912741 The Netherlands fax: NONE 52 05'15.77"N 5 4'44.56"E QTH-locater JO 22 OC "When all is said and done, there is more said than done" _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
