[Qgis-developer] INSTALL doc and svn/git

[Tim Sutton]

Hi William

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 6:55 PM, William Kyngesburye
<woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:
> While looking over the Mac build instructions for 1.7 release, I realized the whole SVN section will have to be changed to be about git.
>
> Then it occurred to me - why are we mentioning getting source from svn (now git) at all for a release?  This is in a released source package.  Of course, svn/git applies to trunk (now master).
>
> Maybe to accomodate both a release and git the body platform sections could be about release packages, with reference to a separate section at the end (after all platform sections) that covers git for those interested.  That would also reduce some redundancy in describing git setup and commands.
>

Yeah or we should just move all git related stuff into CODING.t2t
which is intended for developers (who are probably more likely to
actually care about such things)....and just put a note referring to
that file in the INSTALL.t2t docs.

Regards

Tim


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