Re: odd configure error

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Op donderdag 26-03-2009 om 21:06 uur [tijdzone +0800], schreef Graham
Percival:

> > GIT from git.sv.gnu.org
> >     git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git
> 
> This does not set up easy pulling or pushing in the future, and
> generally assumes that people know how to use git

> > To get the main source code and documentation,
> > mkdir lilypond; cd lilypond
> > git init-db
> > git remote add -f -t master -m master origin 
> > git://git.sv.gnu.org/lilypond.git/
> > git checkout -b master origin/master
> 
> After approximately four hours of discussion between git experts
> and non-experts, we decided that this is the best sequence of
> commands for most contributors. 

Well, this is utterly ridiculous IMNSHO.  I would suggest to

  * fix the main lilypond repo so that git clone "just works", or
  * ask on address@hidden what else we're doing wrong, or
  * fix git so that git clone "just works"

If all of these fail, and git clone is *supposed* to be utterly
unusable, I suggest to look seriously into switching to bazaar or hg.

Jan.

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