Re: How to begin contributing to XWidgets for GSoC

[Xue Fuqiao <xfq@gnu.org>]

joakim@verona.se writes:
>> joakim@verona.se writes:
>>> See https://gitorious.org/emacs-xwidgets/emacs-xwidgets/source/39adb3f2f911a7c4fc6ab65ce5acc369e877741a:
>>
>> I can't successfully clone this repo:
>>
>>   $ git clone https://git.gitorious.org/emacs-xwidgets/emacs-xwidgets.git
>>   Cloning into 'emacs-xwidgets'...
>>   remote: Counting objects: 716588, done
>>   remote: Finding sources: 100% (716588/716588)
>>   remote: Compressing objects: 100% (9874/9874)
>>   remote: Compressing objects: 100% (9845/9845)
>>   Receiving objects: 100% (716588/716588), 227.22 MiB | 218.00 KiB/s, done.
>>   Resolving deltas: 100% (577228/577228), done.
>>   Checking connectivity... done
>>   warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout.
>>
>> So, perhaps a `master' branch is necessary[fn:1].
> I didnt add a master branch because my git repo uses trunk like bzr.
> I used this mirror as a start: http://repo.or.cz/w/emacs.git, which
> seems to have a master in sync with trunk.
>
> A large part of this years GSOC will be combatting the DVCSes I think.

I checked out the `xwidget2' branch successfully by `git checkout -b
xwidget2 origin/xwidget2'.  Could you please rename that branch (by `git
branch -m origin/xwidget2 master', perhaps)?

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