Re: [libreoffice-design] Hello everyone.

Alex and Stefan,

I'm a little confused. I checked the instructions for how to build
Libreoffice. I do not have Cygwin yet but I'm going to download it. Do I
need to get all the git repositories for LibreOffice or just the ones for
the website?



On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Stefan Knorr (Astron) <
heinzlesspam@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi Maggie, Alex,
>
>
> On 8 March 2012 21:57, Alexander Wilms <alexander.wilms@zoho.com> wrote:
> > git is a version-control system. It was first developed for the Linux and
> > LibreOffice uses it too.
>
> Right. So it's a (better) replacement for things like SVN/CVS/... (The
> gist of these tools is that you version a set of files and can easily
> see the history of each file or go back to previous versions.)
> You can download git from here:
>
> http://git-scm.com/
>
>
> > Here's an overview of all the repos libreoffice consists of:
> > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice
> >
> > This page explains how to use git for getting the latest source and
> building
> > it: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Native_Build
> >
> > In the section "Getting the source" you'd need to replace
> >
> > git://anongit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core with
> > git://anongit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/website
>
> Thanks Alex. Maggie, please ask if any of that sounds too much like
> technobabble. Also, don't let the command line shock you. :)
> There are graphical UI's available, like e.g.
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/gitextensions/
>
> Hope this helps a bit,
>
> Astron.
>
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