[BRLTTY] Brltty is now in a git repository.

[adrian at pa0rda.nl]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 03:29:59AM -0500, Dave Mielke wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> Brltty is now being maintained within a git (rather than a subversion) source 
> repository. Cloning should be done from:
> 
>    git at github.com:brltty/brltty.git
> 
> If any of you have already discovered this repository, please reclone. It's 
> former contents were experimental and have now been overwritten.
> 
> The subversion repository is no longer being updated as of the release of 
> brltty-5.0. For those of you who aren't familiar with git but who used to use 
> subversion, here are a few commands that'll come in handy:
> 
> Instead of doing "svn checkout", you should now do:
> 
>    git clone git at github.com:brltty/brltty.git
> 
I tried this but I can't get in, it asks for the passphrase belonging to
my identity and when I type that it hangs up with, permission denied.

> This'll create a brltty subdirectory. If you'd prefer to create a different 
> directory, then, as with the "svn checkout" command, you can add that 
> directory's path as an additional parameter.
> 
> After cloning the repository, again as with subversion, you'd cd into the newly 
> created directory. By default, you'll be seeing the latest development code as 
> of that time. You can then, from time to time as needed, update to the new 
> latest development code by doing "git pull" (which works essentially like "svn 
> update").
> 
> If you'd like to switch to the code for a specific brltty release, then you'd 
> use a command like this:
> 
>    git checkout BRLTTY-release
> 
> For example:
> 
>    git checkout BRLTTY-5.0
> 
> Note that BRLTTY, here, is in all uppercase.
> 
> To see which brltty releases you can have a look at, use this command:
> 
>    git tag
> 
> Note that the subversion repository only contained brltty releases back to 3.0 
> whereas the git repository now additionally contains many releases earlier than 
> that.
> 
> To get back to the latest development code, use this command:
> 
>    git checkout master
> 
> That should be enough to get you going. If you have any questions regarding 
> this change, don't hesitate to ask.
> 
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