From 10cecf2f783bf0504f05947787495a0d2a75db04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 12:33:21 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: update README * README: Remove references to cogito. Remove cvs-repo-updating instructions from 2007. Don't imply that CVS is better if you have limited disk space. --- ChangeLog | 7 +++++++ README | 20 +++----------------- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index c5a6a1065..50d3cd39f 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2009-08-06 Jim Meyering + + doc: update README + * README: Remove references to cogito. + Remove cvs-repo-updating instructions from 2007. + Don't imply that CVS is better if you have limited disk space. + 2009-08-05 Joel E. Denny update-copyright: support C-style comments diff --git a/README b/README index 01ec2fe92..4b699a7a2 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -32,8 +32,6 @@ git and CVS Gnulib is available for anonymous checkout. In any Bourne-shell the following should work: $ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git -Or, if you prefer the CVS-like 'cogito' frontend to plain 'git': - $ cg clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git For a read-write checkout you need to have a login on savannah.gnu.org and be a member of the gnulib project at http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnulib . @@ -51,21 +49,9 @@ git resources: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/tutorial.html FAQ: http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq -cogito resources: - Overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogito_(software) - Homepage: http://git.or.cz/cogito/ - Download: http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/cogito/ - Tutorial: http://git.or.cz/course/ - -For those among us who have tightly limited disk space and a fast network -connection, CVS checkouts are also supported: +CVS checkouts are also supported: $ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@pserver.git.sv.gnu.org:/gnulib.git co -d gnulib HEAD -CVS checkouts from before 2007-09-19 can be converted to the new read-only CVS -location through commands like these: - $ find . -name Root -exec sed --in-place 's|.*|:pserver:anonymous@pserver.git.sv.gnu.org:/gnulib.git|' {} ';' - $ find . -name Repository -exec sed --in-place 's|^gnulib|/srv/git/gnulib.git/HEAD|' {} ';' - Gnulib is hosted on savannah.gnu.org. The project page is http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnulib. @@ -76,8 +62,8 @@ Keeping Up-to-date The best way to work with Gnulib is to check it out of git. Subscribing to the bug-gnulib@gnu.org mailing list will help you to plan when to update your local copy of Gnulib (which you use to -maintain your software) from git. To synchronize, you can use "git pull" -or "cg update", or "cvs update -dP" if you are still using CVS. +maintain your software) from git. To synchronize, you can use "git pull", +or "cvs update -dP" if you are still using CVS. Sometimes, using an updated version of Gnulib will require you to use newer versions of GNU Automake or Autoconf. You may find it helpful -- 2.11.0