Alex and Stefan, I'm a little confused. I checked the instructions for how to build Libreoffice. I do not have Cygwin yet but I'm going to download it. Do I need to get all the git repositories for LibreOffice or just the ones for the website?
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Stefan Knorr (Astron) < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Maggie, Alex, > > > On 8 March 2012 21:57, Alexander Wilms <[email protected]> wrote: > > git is a version-control system. It was first developed for the Linux and > > LibreOffice uses it too. > > Right. So it's a (better) replacement for things like SVN/CVS/... (The > gist of these tools is that you version a set of files and can easily > see the history of each file or go back to previous versions.) > You can download git from here: > > http://git-scm.com/ > > > > Here's an overview of all the repos libreoffice consists of: > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice > > > > This page explains how to use git for getting the latest source and > building > > it: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Native_Build > > > > In the section "Getting the source" you'd need to replace > > > > git://anongit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core with > > git://anongit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/website > > Thanks Alex. Maggie, please ask if any of that sounds too much like > technobabble. Also, don't let the command line shock you. :) > There are graphical UI's available, like e.g. > http://sourceforge.net/projects/gitextensions/ > > Hope this helps a bit, > > Astron. > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
