You've hit the laziness landmine :) The instructions on http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/UsingWebKitGit go like this:
1) see how to change your .gclient on http://dev.chromium.org/developers/contributing-to-webkit (that is, add the big custom_deps hunk) 2) then change first line to "Webkit: None". :DG< On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Drew Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to follow these suggestions, but I'm getting a ton of errors when > trying to do a gclient sync when third_party/WebKit is a clone of > git.webkit.org. > For example: > svn: '/Users/atwilson/chrome.git/src/third_party/WebKit/WebKitLibraries' is > not a working copy > Error: Can't update/checkout > '/Users/atwilson/chrome.git/src/third_party/WebKit/WebKitLibraries' if an > unversioned directory is present. Delete the directory and try again. > I can go through and individually add these directories to my .gclient file, > but after I added the 8th one it occurs to me that I'm probably Doing It > Wrong. > Do you guys have a bunch of exclusions in your .gclient, or is there another > way? > -atw > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Evan Martin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I checked in tools/sync-webkit-git.py as a stopgap. Description >> pasted below; let me know if it works/doesn't work for you. >> >> === >> >> Under the assumption third_party/WebKit is a clone of git.webkit.org, >> we can use git commands to make it match the version requested by DEPS. >> >> To use this: >> 1) rm -rf third_party/WebKit >> 2) git clone git://git.webkit.org/WebKit.git third_party/WebKit >> 3) run ./tools/sync-webkit-git.py now, and again whenever you run gclient >> sync. >> >> FAQ: >> Q. Why not add this functionality to gclient itself? >> A. DEPS actually specifies to only pull some subdirectories of >> third_party/WebKit. So even if gclient supported git, we'd still need >> to special-case this. >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
