[Qgis-developer] Downloading & compiling QGIS

[Nathan Woodrow]

Zoltan,

Jump on IRC is normally a good way if you have trouble with building.  Some
of us normally hang around there, or of course you can still email the
mailing list.

- Nathan

On Tue Jan 13 2015 at 18:40:15 Zoltan Szecsei <zoltans at geograph.co.za>
wrote:

>  Hi Matthias
> Thanks for the confirmation.
> I'm just "feeling around" at the moment - and not worried about the
> download size.
>
> Are the instructions I am following still "current"?
> If I find stuff that I feel maybe missing (ie: things don't go according
> to my expectations from the instructions), is there anyone particular I
> should notify?
>
> Cheers for now,
> Zoltan (The emigrant one :-)  )
>
>
>
>
> On 2015/01/13 10:33, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
>
> Hi Zoltan,
>
> That is correct.
> It is not compressed to 44 objects. It is just compressing (packing) 44
> objects it has not compressed yet.
> But git downloads the whole history for you since the very first version
> of QGIS anyway. That is fine if you are going to develop and want to
> keep track of what has been done when etc.
>
> If you are worried about the download size, you can either use --depth 1
> when cloninghttp://gistflow.com/posts/430-git-clone-without-history
> or just download the zip file of the branch you are interested on the
> github project page.
>
> Regards,
> Matthias
>
> On 01/13/2015 08:43 AM, Zoltan Szecsei wrote:
>
>  Hi,
> My platform is a "fresh" 64 bit Ubuntu 14.10 desktop install.
> I am following these instructions:http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.github.com/qgis/QGIS/master/doc/INSTALL.html
>
> Using anonymous checkout, I get told that there are 271040 objects.
> This is then compressed to 44 objects
> Download begins, but is tracking the 271040 objects instead of the "44".
>
> Is this correct or should it be downloading what I assume to be the
> 271040 objects that were compressed into 44 objects?
>
> Regards & TIA,
> Zoltan
>
>
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