Re: Issue 1964 in lilypond: lilydev 2.0

[lilypond]

Comment #11 on issue 1964 by address@hidden: lilydev 2.0
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1964

Well I have some comments that may be valid.

1. $LILYPOND_GIT/.git/config doesn't contain 'staging' after you use  
lily-git.tcl to pull down the code.

So following the various threads on dev I manually added a second line to  
my config file manually to include staging

--snip--

[remote "origin"]
        url = git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git
        fetch = +refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master
        fetch = +refs/heads/staging:refs/remotes/origin/staging  <--Added  
by me
--snip-

I looked at Lily-git.tcl and could see where we pull down the tree

--snip--

git init
        git config core.bare false
        git remote add -t $originHead \
            origin git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git
        git fetch
        git reset --hard origin/$originHead
        git config branch.$originHead.remote origin
        git config branch.$originHead.merge refs/heads/$originHead

--snip-

but couldn't see how $originHead was defined in lily-git.tcl.

I wonder, as lily-dev is for people like myself (or for those like Alberto  
that want to submit a patch but are not on Linux and so need an  
easy-to-setup build environment) whether $originHead should be 'staging'  
not 'master' instead?

I realise that this is not necessarily to do with LilyDev but wasn't sure  
how easy it was to incorporate a change like this into Lily-git.tcl that we  
put in ../skel/.. on lilydev in the first place.

2. echo $PATH doesn't include '$LILYPOND_GIT/build/out/bin/' by default.  
Personally I find this would be useful, again to those that just want  
to 'get on with stuff' as we are advocating using an out-of-tree build  
process to configure and make, after which the above path contains the  
lilypond and lilypond-book commands (that I often use when making document  
edits for testing) using the 'current' build and this means that devs would  
not need to think they have to make-install just to test something quickly.

So adding this path to the bash.rc (or wherever - .profile?) would be nice  
I think.

So far other than those, it;s been ok. There are another slew of updates  
from canonical that I will apply and continue to test so that if we do cut  
a new Lilydev we can include those.