Re: move to git

[Dan Nicholson]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
>  * Dan Nicholson wrote on Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:01:00AM CEST:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > >   a-machine-with-git$ git-clone http://git.sv.gnu.org/libtool.git libtool
>  > >   a-machine-with-git$ scp libtool address@hidden:
>  > >   a-machine-with-git$ ssh address@hidden
>  > >   some-machine-without-git$ cd libtool
>  > >   some-machine-without-git$ ./bootstrap
>
>
> > With gitweb, there's a far easier process:
>  >
>  > http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libtool.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz
>  >
>  > That would be the snapshot link under a tree view.
>
>  Which isn't bootstrapped, which is the problem under consideration.
>  Also, please note that some systems don't have easy net access.
>  But the problem described above is whether or not git should be
>  a prerequisite for bootstrapping libtool (because git describe would
>  be used in order to produce a meaningful inter-release version number).

Sorry about that. About a minute later I realized that wasn't the
issue at all. Receding into the background...

--
Dan