We expect a clone now since
commit 2e9ddb93dac994c7367d2e44d7939c63f780f240
Author: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>
Date: Fri Jan 11 14:36:48 2019 +0200
dim: don't setup maintainer-tools as aux checkout
But somehow the getting started pages haven't been updated.
Cc: Ayan Halder <[email protected]>
Cc: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
---
getting-started.rst | 12 ++++++++----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/getting-started.rst b/getting-started.rst
index 5d4ce9c1991e..ea672497982d 100644
--- a/getting-started.rst
+++ b/getting-started.rst
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ There's also a sample config file for ~/.dimrc::
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/maintainer-tools/raw/master/dimrc.sample
+The recommended way to setup dim is to simply clone it::
+
+ $ cd $DIM_PREFIX # defaults to ~/.src, or whatever you've set in your
.dimrc
+ $ git clone [email protected]:drm/maintainer-tools.git
+
Plus, there's bash completion in the same directory if you feel like using
that.
Run::
@@ -23,10 +28,9 @@ your .dimrc to match your setup and then run::
$ dim setup
-This will also check out the latest maintainer-tools branches, so please
replace
-the dim you just downloaded with a symlink after this step. And by the way, if
-you have improvements for dim, see `contributing
-<dim.html#contributing-bug-reports-and-discussion>`_.
+This expects that you have the maintainer-tools already checked out in
+$DIM_PREFIX/maintainer-tools. And by the way, if you have improvements for dim,
+see `contributing <dim.html#contributing-bug-reports-and-discussion>`_.
If you have a freedesktop.org account and plan to push things on one of the
drm-xxx repos, you should use the ssh://git.freedesktop.org/git/drm-xxx urls
--
2.23.0
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