Re: Contributor Guide "volunteers" needed

[Jonathan Kulp]

Graham Percival wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:33:47AM -0600, Jonathan Kulp wrote:
> > http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/devel/contrib-guide/Website-source-code.html#Website-source-code
> >
> > The first command here creates a dir "lilypod-web" instead of "lilypond-web"
>
> Please fix -- you have git access, right?  I can't remember if
> that got sorted out in the end.
>
> > 2. 1.1.6: this command in section 1.1.6 didn't do anything when I ran it:
> >
> > git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git
> >
> > I tried it in a browser also but it didn't do anything there, either. Is 
> > this even a terminal command?
>
> It's a shortcut for advanced git people.  Sorry, there should be
> some warning there about this only being for hardcore developers.
> IIRC the actual command-line would be
>   git clone git://...
> but I'm not certain it's worth including that here, since git
> appears to have half a dozen different ways to get source code,
> and every git person has his own favorite command.
>
> > 3. 1.1.6: Third item on the same page didn't do anything for me:
> >
> > ssh://git.sv.gnu.org/srv/git/lilypond.git
>
> Same idea here -- they're workarounds for more advanced git
> people.  There should be some kind of a warning about this.
>
> > 4. 1.4.1: The "gitk" command has a dependency--need to apt-get it to run  
> > the command.  Not a big deal but I thought I'd mention it.
>
> Hmm, IIRC in OSX it comes bundled with git.  A warning about that
> would also be nice.  :)

Ok I've made a patch with these warnings and the typo correction.  I 
don't have git access so I'll send the patch to Carl to apply.

> > NOT CHECKED: I didn't try the commands for creating patches and applying  
> > them yet since I don't have any patches to make at the moment.  The  
> > patches I sent to Carl already were done with the diff -u command  
> > instead of git.
>
> Keep on doing that for another week or so, until the git people
> have settled on the best patch-making command for us.

Will do.  Thanks,

Jon
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