Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of Doc/SCDB/Git

Timestamp:

Feb 24, 2010, 4:25:36 PM (16 years ago)

Author:

/O=GRID-FR/C=FR/O=CNRS/OU=LAL/CN=Michel Jouvin

Comment:

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Doc/SCDB/Git

@@ -33 +33 @@
 }}}
 
-Note that this command can be fairly long to execute depending on the SCDB history. You may want to add `--username xxx` if a specific username must be used to access the SCDB repository.
+Note that this command can be fairly long to execute depending on the SCDB history. Read `git-svn` help (`git help svn`) for a suggestion using an intermediate Git repository to improve the cloning time if several clones of the SVN repository should be done. You may want to add `--username xxx` if a specific username must be used to access the SCDB repository.
 
 ''Note: `git svn` is using the standard (Perl) SVN API and is thus using the standard SVN credential cache when asked for authentication. You may want to ensure that there is an appropriate credential cached to avoid multiple password prompt. You also need to ensure there is no credential cached for your SVN server that doesn't allow proper access to the configuration database.''
@@ -97 +97 @@
 {{{
 mkdir external
-for rep in ant panc saxon svnkit scdb-ant-utils; do git clone -n -s . external/$rep; done
+for rep in ant panc saxon svnkit scdb-ant-utils; do mkdir external/$rep; git clone -n -s . external/$rep; done
 }}}
  * Go into each directory and do the following using the appropriate branch created previously:
@@ -110 +110 @@
 git checkout ant-1.7.1
 }}}
+ * Add `external` to `.gitignore` in the main directory.
+
+''Note: on Windows, the `ln -s` command results in making a file copy as symlinks don't exist on this system. This means that to further update these repository clones may require to redo the `rm` + `ln -s` steps.'
 
 == Using Git for Everyday Operations == #GitEveryDay