Can you share the recommended way to get latest complete source from Git?

We need to update the docs with clear how-to on this.   Can't find
such in the documentation.

Thanks!

On 1/23/12, M. David Peterson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:22 PM, pub crawler
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>> Now, the source I used for this from GIT, using the download of a zip
>> file.  Did this today, so current.
>>
>> Under /admin directory in this zipfile I do see a CTK subdirectory,
>> but it is empty...
>
>
> The empty CTK directory is an issue with how github.com handles git
> submodules referenced in a project.  If you checkout the repo directly
> using --recursive (or `git submodule update --init` after pulling down the
> initial repo) the submodule in question (CTK) will be present and
> available. At present time the zip/tarball that's auto-generated by github
> doesn't recursively included any of the referenced submodules which is the
> reason for the empty directory.
>
> As it relates to direct downloads of the auto-generated zip/tarball, unless
> github chooses to recursively include references submodules, this will
> continue to be a problem us.  The workaround is to check the CTK folder for
> the existence of the source files and, if not present, pull down and
> extract the auto-generated zip/tarball for the CTK project from github
> before continuing the build process.
>
> This won't work for folks building on machines without Internet access, but
> we can provide a developer-friendly error specifying the need to download
> and extract the proper CTK archive before continuing the build.
>
> Alvaro: I'll take a look at adding this functionality to the Makefile of
> the master branch later this evening. I'll ping back when ready for review.
>
> --
> /M:D
>
> M. David Peterson
> Co-Founder & Chief Architect, 3rd&Urban, LLC
> Email: [email protected]
> Voice: (801) 742-1064
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>
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