On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Marc-Antoine Ruel <mar...@chromium.org>wrote:
> gcl, gclient and friends are moving from > http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/depot_tools/ to > http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/tools/depot_tools/ > > To help you with the switch, there is now a little script to switch > automatically. Just run ** > *convert_depot_tools* > to convert the depot_tools to the new checkout. Warning: the output of this > tool isn't nice. If anything fails, just checkout manually: > *svn co > **http://src.chromium.org/svn/**trunk/tools/depot_tools*<http://src.chromium.org/svn/trunk/tools/depot_tools> > The end result is the same. > > > The far biggest advantage is that there is only one place for all the > scripts (no more platform specific) and you can now send patches directly > from your depot_tools; e.g. no need to do a separate checkout and run scons > anymore. > > The old depot_tools is scheduled to be removed on May 12, 2009 and you will > be upgraded *automatically* next time you run gclient after that date. > > Windows-only side-effects: > > - It won't install svn client nor python if they are found in %PATH%. > - If you used svn lately, the old depot_tools version was upgraded to > 1.6. If you have svn 1.5 in your %PATH%, you may have trouble working with > your checkout. Just removing your old client from the path and run "gclient > help" again. > > I'm confused by these last bullet points. It is quite common for people to have /usr/bin/svn on their $PATH when running under cygwin. It was a goal of depot_tools to provide the right version of svn regardless of what version of svn might exist on $PATH already. This is important because /usr/bin/svn might be the wrong version or might be compiled for unix (LF line endings instead of CRLF). How do you avoid all of these problems? -Darin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
