coordinating the message

[Boudewijn Rempt]

I'm going to have to publish something on krita.org about the move to git and the name change. In order to avoid sending out conflicting messages, I want to show my text for your consideration so I can align it with the calligra announcement:

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Moving to Git!

<p>For about five years, until 2005, Krita was developed in KDE's CVS repository. In 2005, it moved to subversion. And now, in 2010, Krita will move to KDE's git infrastructure. This is a much bigger change than from CVS to SVN, and people will have to learn some new habits. We might even change some of our ways of working.

<p>And at the same time, the name of parent project changes from KOffice to Calligra. This is both in recognization of the fact that the "KOffice" technology Krita is based on has a wider purpose than just enabling office applications, as well as the outcome of a community process caused by interpersonal problems in the KOffice core community.

<p>In any case, if you were one of the brave people following Krita development, you'll have to adapt a bit. Where you previously checked out the Krita source code from subversion and kept up to date with "svn up", you'll have to do the following:

<p>Download the latest repository tarball:

<p><tt>$  wget -c http://anongit1.kde.org/calligra/calligra-latest.tar.gz</tt>

<p>Unpack it:

<p><tt>$ tar -xzf calligra-latest.tar.gz</tt>

<p>Initialize the repository:

<p><tt>$ cd calligra; ./initrepo.sh</tt>

<p>And from now on, with a simple

<p><tt>git pull</tt>

<p>You can keep up to date! All the building steps are still exactly the same.
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Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org