And having looked through the bash and batch files on windows, it looks 
like running 

gclient 
config https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git
gclient sync 

will allow the user to proceed as normally 

On Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 12:53:14 PM UTC-5, Alex Chesser wrote:
>
> So the first issue I've run into is as follows.
>
> I've downloaded the depot_tools, I've added them to the END of my path, 
> I've opened a new cmd shell and run `gclient` and this hangs after echoing 
> the "downloading python" statement.
>
> If instead I run this within a git bash window I first see help content 
>
> achesser@ACHESSER ~
>>
>> $ gclient
>>
>> Usage: gclient.py <command> [options]
>>
>>
>>> Meta checkout manager supporting both Subversion and GIT.
>>
>> and running other possible commands appear to give me the following 
> errors: 
>
> achesser@ACHESSER ~$ gclient sync
>> Error: client not configured; see 'gclient config'
>>
>  
>
>> achesser@ACHESSER ~ $ gclient config
>> Usage: gclient.py config [options] [url] [safesync url]
>> gclient.py: error: Inconsistent arguments. Use either --spec or one or 2 
>> args
>
>
> If there are any tips for dealing with this I'd appreciate it. It appears 
> that the instructions say
> http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/install-depot-tools step 3 says
>
> "you may encounter bugs from time to time" 
>
> :) 
>  
>
>  
>
> On Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 12:01:31 PM UTC-5, Alex Chesser wrote:
>>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> According to step one of the contributing wiki 
>> https://code.google.com/p/v8-wiki/wiki/Contributing the first step is to 
>> reach out to the mailing list. I'm just getting started, have the code 
>> checked out (though not actually according to the instructions yet).
>>
>> I'm hoping to test that my code eventually works within the chrome 
>> browser, which may require ALSO checking out canary and building that with 
>> a link to my own version of V8.
>>
>> Hopefully the steps as indicated in the readme are flawless and work the 
>> first time (even when you're using a windows machine and don't necessarily 
>> have access to apt-get)  but I suppose if I have problems I'll ask them 
>> here.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>

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