Ok, I've just had chance to play about. I've performed a new clone:
$ git clone g...@github.com:jollytoad/jquery.git Initialized empty Git repository in /home/mark/git/jquery/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 10347, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3098/3098), done. remote: Total 10347 (delta 6801), reused 10279 (delta 6749) Receiving objects: 100% (10347/10347), 4.94 MiB | 1.07 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (6801/6801), done. $ cd jquery $ make init Grabbing external dependencies... cd: 1: can't cd to src/sizzle make: *** [init] Error 2 Both 'git submodule init' and 'git submodule update' produce no output at all! So, I tried manually adding the submodules: $ git submodule add git://github.com/jquery/qunit.git test/qunit Initialized empty Git repository in /home/mark/git/jquery/test/qunit/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 347, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (271/271), done. remote: Total 347 (delta 121), reused 224 (delta 75) Receiving objects: 100% (347/347), 74.04 KiB, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (121/121), done. $ git submodule add git://github.com/jeresig/sizzle.git src/sizzle Initialized empty Git repository in /home/mark/git/jquery/src/sizzle/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 895, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (866/866), done. remote: Total 895 (delta 576), reused 57 (delta 10) Receiving objects: 100% (895/895), 431.53 KiB | 388 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (576/576), done. $ git submodule init Submodule 'src/sizzle' (git://github.com/jeresig/sizzle.git) registered for path 'src/sizzle' Submodule 'test/qunit' (git://github.com/jquery/qunit.git) registered for path 'test/qunit' ...and now it works :) (was using git version 1.6.3.3, now on 1.6.5.3) - Mark 2009/11/27 Chris Wanstrath <ch...@logicalawesome.com>: >> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Mark Gibson <jollyt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > >>> has anyone managed to build jQuery from a forked repository? > > Here's what I did: > > 1. forked http://github.com/jquery/jquery to http://github.com/defunkt/jquery > 2. cloned g...@github.com:defunkt/jquery.git > 3. ran `make init` in my jquery clone > 4. saw this output: http://gist.github.com/244143 > 5. ran `make init` again, saw similar output: http://gist.github.com/244144 > 6. deleted my local clone, re-cloned, added a `jquery` remote: > http://gist.github.com/244147 > 7. ran `make init`, saw original output: http://gist.github.com/244149 > > Is that similar to what you're doing? What does running `git submodule > init` then `git submodule update` manually give you? > > Also, what version of Git are you on? > > $ git --version > git version 1.6.4.2 > > -- > Chris Wanstrath > http://defunkt.github.com/ > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en.