Version mismatch when building trunk

[Kevin Krammer]

On Friday, 2009-10-16, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Em Sexta-feira 16. Outubro 2009, às 17.32.16, Kevin Krammer escreveu:
> > On Friday, 2009-10-16, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > Em Sexta-feira 16. Outubro 2009, às 08.50.19, Kevin Krammer escreveu:
> > > > On Friday, 2009-10-16, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > > > Em Quinta-feira 15. Outubro 2009, às 23.53.18, Chani escreveu:
> > > > > > so if there *is* a way for people to set up their git repository
> > > > > > so that it automagically updates to the latest recommended qt
> > > > > > with just a 'git pull' or whatever, can we have instructions for
> > > > > > that please?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > :)
> > > > >
> > > > > There is a way, provided you never have commits of your own on top.
> > > > >
> > > > > git fetch origin HEAD
> > > > > git reset --hard FETCH_HEAD
> > > >
> > > > So if I do that now or right after a clone, do I have to repeat it
> > > > before every update or does this make the KDE branch permanently work
> > > > the way it is intended?
> > >
> > > When you clone, you get the branch that HEAD points to.
> > >
> > > But then you are at that branch. If HEAD points somewhere else, you
> > > won't know. You need to run these commands above for every update.
> >
> > Ok, thanks. Clone it is then.
> > As a bonus it removes the need for make confclean :)
> 
> Please don't.

Relax, I won't do that every time :)
Just when the requirement of KDE makes the current checkout useless due to 
this weird limitation.

> A clone is a 170 MB transfer. A fetch is usually just a few kilobytes -- at
> most 5 MB when I push a new release.

Yeah, I noticed.
But 170MB every several months is acceptable, even if it takes quite a while.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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