Re: [orca-list] build from source

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

Hey Joh,

Thanks for the additional information; always learn something new from
these lists.

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 05:39:04PM +0100, Jon wrote:
> git branch -l
> will show you the local branches that you have set up
> git branch -r
> will show the remote once
> git branch -a
> will show you all of them.
>
> Note that the branch that you are currently on will be marked with a star.
>
> On Sat 14/08/2010 at 08:46:22, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > I'm replying back to this list; you replied privately.  You will get
> > more feedback by replying to the list.
> >
> > I don't know why the second step here; I have a recent clone of orca
> > plus I created one local branch for my own purposes and there aren't
> > any other branches.  If you do a fresh git-clone and then follow with
> > a git-branch, you will notice that only master is listed.  I'm not a
> > git expert by any means so dunno if there are any other branches made
> > vailable through a normal git-clone. for most purposes, you should
> > only need a pull from master anyway.  
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 04:23:58AM -0400, jonathan Nadeau wrote:
> > > I was able to do the clone command but now when I do the next step which
> > > is 
> > >
> > > git checkout -b gnome-2-20 origin/gnome-2-20
> > >
> > > it syas that there is no git branch I also changed the gnome 2-20 to
> > > 2-30 with the same results. Any help is appreciated. Or if therre is
> > > somewhere to look at other documentation I would also check that out.
> > > Thanks in addvance. 
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 21:21 -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > > > I don't know if what you typed in your message was wrong or if that is
> > > > exactly what you passed to the git command.  If the latter, then your
> > > > git command was wrong.  it should be:
> > > > git clone git://git.gnome.org/orca
> > > > (that git: thing is all one word with no spaces.  That should create a
> > > > directory called orca.  What I do to keep things strait is create a
> > > > top level directory in my home environment called git and cd into git;
> > > > then do the git clones and subsequent git pulls after that.  That the
> > > > orca stuff would actually be in a directory called git/orca.
> > > >
> > > > Hope that helps.
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 04:05:48PM -0400, jonathan Nadeau wrote:
> > > > > Hello list,
> > > > >
> > > > > I have a question about building form source. I was looking through the
> > > > > instructions and have a question. When I enter this command 
> > > > >
> > > > > git clone git://git gnome.org/orca orca 
> > > > >
> > > > > it says fatel this path already exists and the directory is not empty.
> > > > > What should I do? Should I just cd into the .orca folder and follow the
> > > > > rest of the commands to pull from git or should I do something else?
> > > > > Thanks for your help.  
> > > > >
> > > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > > orca-list mailing list
> > > > > orca-list gnome org
> > > > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> > > > > Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> > > > > The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> > > > > The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> > > > > Netiquette Guidelines are at 
> > > > > http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions/NetiquetteGuidelines
> > > > > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> > > > > Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > orca-list mailing list
> > > > orca-list gnome org
> > > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> > > > Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> > > > The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> > > > The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> > > > Netiquette Guidelines are at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions/NetiquetteGuidelines
> > > > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> > > > Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
> > _______________________________________________
> > orca-list mailing list
> > orca-list gnome org
> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> > Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> > The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> > The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> > Netiquette Guidelines are at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions/NetiquetteGuidelines
> > Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> > Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp
> _______________________________________________
> orca-list mailing list
> orca-list gnome org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/orca-list
> Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> The manual is at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
> Netiquette Guidelines are at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions/NetiquetteGuidelines
> Log bugs and feature requests at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
> Find out how to help at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/HowCanIHelp