[Kde-scm-interest] JhBuild

[Ian Monroe]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Santi Béjar <sbejar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Ian Monroe <ian.monroe at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Matt Williams <lists at milliams.com> wrote:
>>> One of the oft-quoted selling points of git is the separation of
>>> backend and porcelain and so a kde-specific git command to provide
>>> functionality similar to the bazaar 'lp:' type meta-URLs could be
>>> useful. To do something like:
>>>
>>> git clone kde:kdelibs # or
>>> git kdeclone kdelibs
>>>
>>> which, inside its workings could contain/lookup the official KDE
>>> module dependencies/relationships.
>>
>> That would be pretty cool :)
>
> You can use the url.<base>.insteadOf config.
>
> If you have this in ~/.gitconfig:
>
> [url "git://gitorious.org/kde/"]
>        insteadOf = kde:
>
> git clone kde:kdelibs.git
>
> is equivalent to
>
> git clone git://gitorious.org/kde/kdelibs.git
>
> You can even remove the suffix .git as git adds it if necessary. So at
> the end you could clone kdelibs with just:
>
> git clone kde:kdelibs

Yea but the idea is to clone the meta-repo 'multimedia'. :)

Ian