jhbuild using a git branch

Posted by Benjamin Close on January 29, 2009 under FreeDesktop | 2 Comments to Read

Recently I’ve been playing around with jhbuild. I wanted to jhbuild to use a custom branch from a git repo I’ve setup.  Sadly the documentation on how to do this is a little lacking. Added to the fact that the jhbuild code drops an argument and there’s a lot of fun at work.

The solution, use the revision attribute in your module set file:

 <repository type=”git” name=”git.freedesktop.org”   href=”git://anongit.freedesktop.org/”/>
 <branch repo=”git.freedesktop.org”    module=”~benjsc/xorg/proto/compositeproto” checkoutdir=”xorg/proto/compositeproto” revision=”ir” />

This checks out the ir branch of the repo: git://anongit.freedesktop.org/~benjsc/xorg/proto/compositeproto
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cgit upgrade & gitweb retired

Posted by Benjamin Close on November 24, 2008 under FreeDesktop | 10 Comments to Read

With CGit v0.8 supporting, atom feeds, patch targets and also the clone-url option, it’s time to finally rid ourselves of the memory hungry gitweb. Hence cgit.fd.o has been upgraded and gitweb been pointed to cgit.fd.o. There’s also a bucket load of redirects in place to support this. Hence all the old gitweb url’s should correctly translate into cgit urls.

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