Re: [Lynx-dev] A VCS for lynx

[Tom Schwindl]

Hi,

thanks for all the responses! I'm happy that I'm not the only one who thinks
tarballs for patches are a bit cumbersome :)

On Fri Feb 17, 2023 at 4:44 PM CET, Gisle Vanem wrote:
> Tom Schwindl wrote:
>
> > PS: I couldn't find a discussion about this topic in the archives so I 
> > thought
> > I'll start it here. If there is general consensus that tarballs are good 
> > enough
> > and everything should stay as is, that's alright. 
>
> Tarballs is an archaic relic from the 80-ies IMHO.
> But you're aware that Lynx is already on Github?
>    https://github.com/ThomasDickey/lynx-snapshots.git
>

I wasn't aware of such a repo and if it does reflect recent changes, I'm excited
to learn about it. Thanks! That makes it much easier to follow development.
When someday, in the unforeseeable future, the codebase might fully migrate to a
public git or CVS instance, ping me :D

> But I'm not so sure of the state of it. A 'git pull' just now
> gave me:
>    fatal: refusing to merge unrelated histories
>

As Thomas wrote in another mail, a fresh clone works.

> -- 
> --gv

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Best Regards,
Tom Schwindl