Suggested-by: "Nadathur, Sundar" <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> --- AUTHORS.rst | 1 + Documentation/intro/install/general.rst | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+)
diff --git a/AUTHORS.rst b/AUTHORS.rst index 0956f6d36514..03196c15d115 100644 --- a/AUTHORS.rst +++ b/AUTHORS.rst @@ -514,6 +514,7 @@ Stepan Andrushko [email protected] Stephen Hemminger [email protected] Stuart Cardall [email protected] Suganya Ramachandran [email protected] +Sundar Nadathur [email protected] Taekho Nam [email protected] Takayuki HAMA [email protected] Teemu Koponen [email protected] diff --git a/Documentation/intro/install/general.rst b/Documentation/intro/install/general.rst index b2c3c20de419..8d2e975ee6b3 100644 --- a/Documentation/intro/install/general.rst +++ b/Documentation/intro/install/general.rst @@ -29,6 +29,34 @@ This document describes how to build and install Open vSwitch on a generic Linux, FreeBSD, or NetBSD host. For specifics around installation on a specific platform, refer to one of the other installation guides listed in :doc:`index`. +Obtaining Open vSwitch Sources +------------------------------ + +The canonical location for Open vSwitch source code is its Git +repository, which you can clone into a directory named "ovs" with:: + + $ git clone https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs.git + +Cloning the repository leaves the "master" branch initially checked +out. This is the right branch for general development. If, on the +other hand, if you want to build a particular released version, you +can check it out by running a command such as the following from the +"ovs" directory:: + + $ git checkout v2.7.0 + +The repository also has a branch for each release series. For +example, to obtain the latest fixes in the Open vSwitch 2.7.x release +series, which might include bug fixes that have not yet been in any +released version, you can check it out from the "ovs" directory with:: + + $ git checkout origin/branch-2.7 + +If you do not want to use Git, you can also obtain tarballs for Open +vSwitch release versions via http://openvswitch.org/download/, or +download a ZIP file for any snapshot from the web interface at +https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs. + .. _general-build-reqs: Build Requirements -- 2.10.2 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev
