Re: How to begin contributing to XWidgets for GSoC

[joakim]

Xue Fuqiao <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden writes:
>> See 
>> https://gitorious.org/emacs-xwidgets/emacs-xwidgets/source/39adb3f2f911a7c4fc6ab65ce5acc369e877741a:
>
> I can't successfully clone this repo:
>
>   $ git clone https://git.gitorious.org/emacs-xwidgets/emacs-xwidgets.git
>   Cloning into 'emacs-xwidgets'...
>   remote: Counting objects: 716588, done
>   remote: Finding sources: 100% (716588/716588)
>   remote: Compressing objects: 100% (9874/9874)
>   remote: Compressing objects: 100% (9845/9845)
>   Receiving objects: 100% (716588/716588), 227.22 MiB | 218.00 KiB/s, done.
>   Resolving deltas: 100% (577228/577228), done.
>   Checking connectivity... done
>   warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.
>
> So, perhaps a `master' branch is necessary[fn:1].
>
> BTW I (finally) built the `xwidget' branch from Savannah successfully.
> The command `xwidget-webkit-browse-url' looks cool.  I'll start to test
> it more extensively and dive into src/*.[ch] later.

I didnt add a master branch because my git repo uses trunk like bzr.
I used this mirror as a start: http://repo.or.cz/w/emacs.git, which
seems to have a master in sync with trunk.

A large part of this years GSOC will be combatting the DVCSes I think.



>
> Footnotes:
>
> [fn:1] 
> http://www.linux-pages.com/2013/01/git-clone-gives-warning-remote-head-refers-to-nonexistent-ref-unable-to-checkout/

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Joakim Verona