Re: how to git gnumeric

[Emmanuel Pacaud <emmanuel pacaud lapp in2p3 fr>]

Hi,

Le vendredi 01 mai 2009 à 14:20 -0400, Marlon Nelson a écrit :
> $ git clone -n git://git.gnome.org/gnumeric

Why are you using -n here ? Remove it and the following commands should
work as expected...

> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/marlon/gnome-dev/gnumeric/.git/
> remote: Counting objects: 164330, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (24273/24273), done.
> remote: Total 164330 (delta 139555), reused 163265 (delta 138753)
> Receiving objects: 100% (164330/164330), 118.08 MiB | 188 KiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (139555/139555), done.
> $ cd gnumeric

If you don't want to clone the gnumeric repository again without -n,
just do git checkout master here.

> $ git checkout GNUMERIC_1_9_6
> error: Entry 'ChangeLog' would be overwritten by merge. Cannot merge.
> $

> i guess i'm supposed to read all the man pages and become a git
> expert, in order to be able to grab the latest release to compile

No need to be a git expert, you can also use the following file:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gnumeric/1.9/gnumeric-1.9.6.tar.gz

        Emmanuel.