Hi Cor, *, On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 9:08 PM, Cor Nouws <oo...@nouenoff.nl> wrote: > > I have /git/libreoffice. > > Will the command > git clone http://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/libreoffice/help.git > my_directory (1) > correctly add the Help to the current repo?
Short answer: no In addition to what Eike wrote: We also have git bundles that help with flaky/slow downloads (as those can be resumed). http://dev-www.libreoffice.org/bundles/ There's also a helper script to get and integrate those bundles into a proper tree (aka registers them as submodules) https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/contrib/dev-tools/tree/lo-submodules-from-bundles.sh mainly useful if you don't even have the core repo yet, but you might also want to consider it for the translations repo. so regular git way (this is also what the build would do if you configure it to use helpcontent): from your core checkout: git submodule update --init helpcontent2 → will clone the helpcontent repo and properly register it as submodule (so switching branches/commits will also properly switch to the matching commit in help) - old versions of git however registered absolute paths, so you couldn't simply move your core checkout to another location without adjusting paths, but this bug should be fixed since quite a while now. FYI: repository data for submodules will be in core-repo's .git/modules/nameofsubmodule For sake of completeness manual way if you already got the checkout, do as the script does (move help's .git dir accordingly and instead make it a file pointing to it in the parent's repo: core-repo$ cat helpcontent2/.git gitdir: ../.git/modules/helpcontent2 and add worktree to .git/modules/helpcontent2/config (worktree = ../../../helpcontent2) – Or just use the helper script to do it. ciao Christian _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
