On 11/3/2014 4:09 PM, Blair Bonnett wrote: > On 4 November 2014 09:43, Adam Wolf <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Before we get too far down that path, I think there is a better set of > tools for caching >> Github results locally--git. >> >> I work relatively often from airplanes or countries with poor internet > access, so I use >> scripts to copy stuff locally. >> >> To be completely honest, I have been confused as to why Dick went > straight for a >> particular Git host's API, as compared to using Git itself. Disk > space, maybe? >> I am one of the users (like Bernhard, I guess) who doesn't really like > using the >> Github plugin, and uses data on disk instead. Git provides a way for > me to quickly >> download the new work Carl and the other library folks have done. >> >> If someone wants to talk about this more, I'm up for it. > > I'm with you on this -- I love GitHub, but it would also be nice to use > local Git repositories, e.g., for a set of common components that are > stocked in our department and for which the footprints have been > checked. Offline support via caching would also be good -- I'll admit I > haven't played with the copy-on-write option Wayne mentions, but from > the manual it sounds like it only saves local copies of footprints you > edit rather than the whole library. > > To this end, some time ago I was playing around with writing a basic Git > plugin working using libgit2 [1] to interface with the repository i.e., > no external git executable required. At that stage I only had > authentication-less HTTP cloning working, but libgit2 supports basic > username + password and SSH authentication. Further down the track it > could also support writing changes back to a repository.
I'm not opposed to adding a git plugin to Pcbnew. It would make git a dependency which can be problematic on Windows. Most of the windows git builds I have seen require msys which uses Posix like paths which could be a problem. You may have to translate paths on windows to make this work correctly unless you can find a native version of git. I wonder if you could you set up a local github server on your system (assuming the github server software is freely available) and point the github plugin to 127.0.0.1? It might be an interesting experiment. > > Its currently got a couple of bugs in it and is based against a rather > old version of KiCad. I'll have a crack at rebasing and fixing those > bugs soon -- I might get a chance tonight otherwise it may have to be > the weekend -- and posting it here for others to try out. > > Blair > > [1] https://libgit2.github.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
